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I’ve always loved this poem from The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s poetry is often under-rated, dismissed because it is not fashionably; but his poetic facility is extraordinary, he is a clever satirist, and there are moments of extraordinary vision. This one speaks to all hobbits.
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