Éomer at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day’s rising

I came singing in 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!

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 he ended;

over death, over dread, over doom lifted

out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.

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Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising is a song and lament composed by Éomer during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, in the face of impending defeat and death. It appears in the chapter "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields".