Why my heart woke before thee!
Pro. Oh! this hour
Makes hope reality; for thou art all
My dreams had pictured thee!
Raim. Yet why so long
E’en as a stranger hast thou cross’d my paths,
One nameless and unknown?—and yet I felt
Each pulse within me thrilling to thy voice.
Pro. Because I would not link thy fate with I mine,
Till I could hail the dayspring of that hope