Tirost:
​All alone is how I used to feel when then I’d raise my eyes,
And gaze in wonder on a winter’s night upon the starry sky!

Casi:
Yearned I for a partner when I’d raise my eyes above,
And felt I like a meteor, alone, and without love!
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Tirost:
​And slowly did my feet then tread under Xibar’s gloam,
For no comfort could I summon then, no you to call me home.
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Casi:
​And cold were then my fingers blue that knew no lover’s touch,
Like a naked tree that stood against a winter’s gust!
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Tirost:
But O! when then I met you, Love, a fire lit my eyes!
And all about you seemed to glow – an aura seemed to rise!
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Casi:
​And all the words you spoke to me were a comfort I’d not known,
They made me want to know you deep, and keep you for my own!
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Tirost:
The stars did wheel above us bright as the seasons turned and past,
And each time that I could meet with you, I prayed the strength to ask –
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Casi:
​Anything of me, my love, you need only say the word,
For if you felt my beating heart, you could only be assured –
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Tirost:
​That I could never leave you, Love! You are the world to me!
And I should be the soul of joy if my wife you should be!
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Casi:
​And will you be my husband, Love, the partner of my life?
To walk with me now hand in hand through happiness and strife?
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Tirost:
By the gods, I swear it now! My love shall never bend!
And when in time you walk the starry road, I’ll be there at it’s end.
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Casi:
And when some other lonely souls look upon the starry skies,
There they’ll find our constellation bright, a brilliant, holy guide!
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Tirost:
​To grace with light our skies of night and teach then for all time,
The joy that you have brought to me since our lives have intertwined!