Finduilas to Imrahil, with the gift of a silver bell by Himring

Finduilas to Imrahil, with the gift of a silver bell

Beneath the mountain’s lee,

where the river flows into the bay,

where the wind blows from the Sea,

where waves toss plumes of spray

at the foot of the Seaward Tower,

where the river flows into the bay,

at times in storm and shower

on high the bell rings warning,

at the foot of the Seaward Tower

strayed mariners alarming,

where the gull cries and the tern;

on high the bell rings warning

or marks the hours’ turn,

the lightly flowing hours,

where the gull cries and the tern,

those hours that were ours,

beneath the mountain’s lee,

the lightly flowing hours,

where the wind blows from the Sea.

Chapter End Notes

The poem references the bell in the Seaward Tower (Tirith Aear), mentioned in "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon" and explained as being in or near Dol Amroth.
Some of the wording draws on Tolkien's own poems, the lay of Nimrodel (where the reference to the mountain's lee comes from) and Legolas's song about Lebennin.