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• fep •  Bilbo's Last Song (endpapers) • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [1] • Bilbo's Last Song • (1974) • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• [3] •  Bilbo's Last Song • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [5] •  Day is ended, dim my eyes, but journey long before me lies. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [7] •  Farewell, friends! I hear the call. The Ship's beside the stony wall. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [9] •  Foam is white and waves are grey; beyond the sunset leads my way. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [11] •  Foam is salt, the wind is free; I hear the rising of the Sea. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [13] •  Farewell, friend! The sails are set, the wind is east, the moorings fret. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [15] •  Shadows long before me lie, beneath the ever-bending sky, • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes (variant of cover art for Bilbo's Last Song 2002)
• [17] •  But islands lie behind the Sun that I shall raise ere all is done; • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [19] •  Lands there are to west of West, where night is quiet and sleep is rest. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [21] •  Guided by the Lonely Star, beyond the utmost harbour-bar • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [23] •  I'll find the havens fair and free, and beaches of the Starlit Sea. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [25] •  Ship, my ship! I seek the West, and fields and mountains ever blest. • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [27] •  Farewell to Middle-earth at last, I see the Star above your mast! • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes
• [29] • Notes on the Pictures • essay by uncredited
• [29] •  Notes on the Pictures • interior artwork by Pauline Baynes