La de Bree cae fijo, y otra con papeletas es la que Bilbo canta cuando habla con Frodo por última vez antes de la partida de la Compañía, cuando le pide que vuelva para copilar cantos e historias que le pudiese traer. En ella detecto una mihaja de pena en Bilbo por no acompañar a la Compañía:
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen,
of meadow flowers and butterflies in summers that have been,
of yellow leaves and grossamer in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago,
and people who will see a world that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think of times there where before,
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door...