1: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Part)
2: by J.R.R. Tolkien

4: Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow;
5: bright blue his jacket was and his boots were yellow,
6: green were his girdle and his breeches all of leather;
7: he wore in his tall hat a swan-wing feather.
8: He lived up under Hill, where the Withywindle
9: ran from a grassy well down into the dingle.

11: Old Tom in summertime walked about the meadows
12: gathering the buttercups, running after shadows,
13: tickling the bumblebees that buzzed among the flowers,
14: sitting by the waterside for hours upon hours.

16: There his beard dangled long down into the water:
17: up came Goldberry, the River-woman's daughter;
18: pulled Tom's hanging hair. In he went a-wallowing
19: under the water-lilies, bubbling and a-swallowing.

21: "Hey, Tom Bombadil! Whither are you going?"
22: said fair Goldberry. "Bubbles you are blowing,
23: frightening the finny fish and the brown water-rat,
24: startling the dabchicks, and drowning your feather-hat!"

26: "You bring it back again, there's a pretty maiden!"
27: said Tom Bombadil. "I do not care for wading.
28: Go down! Sleep again where the pools are shady
29: far below willow-roots, little water-lady!"

31: Back to her mother's house in the deepest hollow
32: swam young Goldberry. But Tom, he would not follow;
33: on knotted willow-roots he sat in sunny weather,
34: drying his yellow boots and his draggled feather.