Across the Great Divide by Kara’s Aunty

Dear Mister Frodo are you well?

I wish I knew but I can’t tell

No way to know if you’ve been healed

Your Fate from me remains concealed

Dear Sam I wish that you could know

The evil hurts that plagued me so

And tried to tear my soul apart

Are slowly fading from my heart

Dear Mister Frodo Bag End feels

So strange without your Baggins heels

Walking along its homely halls

No Baggins now between its walls

Dear Sam my most beloved Friend

And now true Master of Bag End

You are the only blessed heir

That I would see ensconced in there

Dear Mister Frodo you should see

The beauty of the Mallorn tree

That’s growing on the Party Field

It seems the Shire has truly healed

Dear Sam has Mallorn tree bloomed yet?

Let every hobbit not forget

The goodness that your hands have sown

With Elven gift that was your own

Dear Mister Frodo you were right!

I’m Mayor now! Oh what a sight!

So many feasts I now attend

Advice to Shirriffs I must lend

Dear Sam you must be Mayor now

I wish that I could see just how

Your common sense and steady hand

Keep hobbits safe throughout the land

Dear Mister Frodo Pip-lad’s one

So many Gamgee feet now run

In dear Bag End’s now crowded hall

I fear it’s getting far too small!

Dear Sam I have some news to tell

Dear Bilbo was not very well

His death has left me quite bereft

His pocket watch all I have left

Dear Mister Frodo I have been

To Minas Anor and I’ve seen

The good things that your love and toil

Have brought to Minas Tirith’s soil

Dear Sam Gandalf is on his way

To brighten up my lonely day

With Fireworks and all the Elves

Have come to see it for themselves

Dear Mister Frodo how I hope

You’re not alone and that you cope

Without your Sam to care for you

I’m sure the Elves their best will do

Dear Sam I now feel much improved

The Elves are kind and I am soothed

Enough by all their efforts here

That loneliness I need not fear

Dear Mister Frodo I still read

To little ’uns of every deed

That you and Mister Bilbo took

Such care to write in the Red Book

Dear Sam I hope you read aloud

To Gamgee children, make them proud

Of their dear Sam-dad’s bravery

When you took such good care of me

Dear Mister Frodo Ellie’s wed

A steady hobbit named Fastred

And on that day my Rosie cried

You’d think her favourite aunt had died!

Dear Sam my hair is truly grey!

How odd to see it look that way

I never thought I could survive

After the Quest, but here I thrive

.

Dear Mister Frodo can you guess?

Goldilocks wed a Took, no less!

I hope her hobbit sense can make

A difference there and no mistake!

Dear Sam have all the children grown?

Now wed with children of their own?

How empty now the Hill must be

Without their songs and cries of glee

Dear Mister Frodo it’s unfair

That scent of Sea upon the air

Always it seems to call to me

But I can’t leave my sweet Rosie

Dear Sam it will not be too long

‘Til you hear gulls’ bittersweet song

Sund’ring Sea keeps you yet at bay

Though it will welcome you one day

Dear Mister Frodo it’s the end

Of Mayorship for your old Friend

I need to be with my Rosie

And all our dearest family

Dear Sam although my heart is light

Completely freed from Sauron’s blight

And Valinor a wondrous place

I cannot wait to see your face

Oh Mister Frodo Rosie’s gone!

Your Sam is left here all alone

I can’t believe I’ll never see

Her smile again shining on me

Dear Sam oh how I feel your pain!

But you’ll be happy once again

Your ship awaits, its Elven oars

Will see you safe to Elven shores

Dear Mister Frodo Ellie took

Safekeeping of the old Red Book

I’ll miss my lads, and lasses too

As I set off to sail to you

Dear Sam your boat it sails to me!

I sense your journey over Sea

And soon our hearts will reunite

Your dear face soon my soul delight

Oh Mister Frodo I feel sick!

But one nice Elf knows just the trick

My poorly self to quickly fix

Gamgees and water just don’t mix!

Text (c) Kara’s Aunty