My Pledge.
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If I can by my life or death
protect and guide you to the end
I'll gladly lay my dreams aside,
This quest fulfill, this world provide
with peace and everlasting love,
Forgoing mine own scanty hope.
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My own desire is forfeit now,
I would in faith my love depart
to shores afar where she my live
forever, with her kin and kith.
So as this world she does forsake,
another step t'ward doom I'll take.
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That thing you carry at your breast
grows heavier each passing hour.
I see it weighing down your soul,
I hear it's voice, I feel it's cold
malignance growing every step
and wish I could do more to help.
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Yet if I offered it to bear
t'would be the very death of me,
And all we aim here to achieve
would crumble 'way to dust and leave
the world at Sauron's feet forever,
Bound to darkness, undelivered.
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So I will watch and guide your feet
as long as you will have me here,
My sword is yours, it will not turn
from duty until all is done.
Your heart is true, your strength belied
within that body small in size.
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Yet out of all this fellowship
I would none other trust but you.
So pure of thought and word and deed
Of baser things you have no need
The Shire is all your heart desires,
to sit and think by homely fires.
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This quest may see us all undone
yet hope remains whilst each stay true
I can not promise easy paths,
nor lack of danger, light in darkest
corners we shall travel through.
Just know that I will follow you.
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Until the bitter end I pledge
my sword, my life to see this through,
and if successful we should be
I shall rejoice, but not for me.
For my heart dwells with she who sails
to far off land where life prevails.