BI...I'll give you the counterpoint to the first poem...it's Theoden's burial song...much more hopeful. THe first one was sung by Eomer in battle.
Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. Hope he rekindled, and in hope ended; over death, over dread, over doom lifted out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
