Aldakkour

A Tinuviel! Tinuviel! Another name to lose.

My captain! My dear captain! Another path you choose.

Your name I cry in the silenced night

A breath I sigh for your lost light

for your lost sight of kindness.

Mellon! Mellon! With eye akin to starlight

Once Dragon! Yet Dragon! With Dragon Heart you fight.

And so I named you, though of mortal forebears:

a friend!—and true, for we shared all cares—

for we shared our cares of darkness.

Back again! Back alone! Fallen into night

I cast your shadow, stepped your step! And, streaming down from lamp-light,

your joy I touched in the midnight air

your memory beneath the starlight there

and I cried your name—Honoratus!

Honoratus! Semper dignus! In this new path you tread,

a captain, a dear captain be to another friend instead.

But, if you are to remember me,

of your friendship not yet worthy;

if your kindness will permit,

I ask of you this gift—

let me thank you.