Large loud steps crunched crisp snow

O, I long to see you

Your small form, new to me

O, small one, who are you?

Two 'hind you stand tall, proud,

O, can I be proud, too?

Your soft voice called me yours

O, tell me: you, mine, too?

Shard of Moon's aunt, why leave?

O, old ones, I'm not through!

I met you, you left me

O, young one, please return, do

And you did, you came back

O, once more, through and through

Each time my gaze on you

O, my leaves one or strew

One day you came with her

O, a shard just like you

And for days, you both came

O, came to me as two

A pain, a joy, in me

O, won't you soothe me, too?

You carved your names in me

O, my flesh is for you

You told her, "Let's be one!"

O, 'neath my boughs, not two

When you left, she with you

O, my soul ached, not new

Both as one, stood 'fore me

O, my pain, joy for you

For years, you both came here

O, 'til one year's fall hue

You fell to your knees, one

O, but one, not as two

You cried to me, faced me,

O, I was in your view

No arms with which to hold

O, I wish to hold you

Old now, weak now, but one

O, please, please don't be blue

You curled up at my base

O, your green, my white hue

I wish that I could cry

O, I would cry for you

I heard one come this way

O, one more to my view

A small one, her skin white

O, but she looked like you

She tried, tried to warm you

O, so small, would not do

I had aged much, like you

O, your life just hours few

That small one was too young

O, like when I met you

She forced 'tween your still arms

O, soon she'd too be blue

I would give what was left

O, to hold both of you

My leaves fall, a fall sheet

O, to warm her and you

Each leaf a day, a dream

O, for you, just for you

I saw your eyes close, wake

O, live, live and be, do

I saw once and for all

O, I saw I love you

You saw me back, me too

O, my love was years true

I saw you smile at me

O, 'fore my life was through