I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, читать дальшеof meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter III, The Ring Goes South, Bilbo's lament upon passing the Ring, and the Quest, to Frodo.
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