O Beren, sweetest to my heart! Alas - to doom that we should part! I find thee not, I hear no more Thy fairest song of days of yore. How may I Dairon look upon? For he betrayed me 'neath the throne Of my proud father, he who set His mind on jewels - how to get Immortal, precious stones of old - The Silmarils, with power they hold.
But I care not for all these things. No more with nightingales I sing: I am locked up and watched by guards. My only comfort - nightly stars; Of sorrows mine I speak to skies, And into dark drown my soft cries...