Tall ships and tall kings by J R R Tolkien at Old Poetry

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Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.

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by J R R Tolkien

1892-1973, written in 2005
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Categories: Philosophy

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