Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the …

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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