Stay Well

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[IRINA] If I tell truth to you, my love, my own Grief is your gift to me, grief alone Wild passion at midnight Wild anger at dawn Yet when you're absent I weep, you gone Stay well, oh keeper of my love Go well throughout all your days Your star, my luckiest star above Your ways, the luckiest ways Since unto you my one love is given And since with you it will remain Though you bring fear of hell, despair of heaven Stay well, come well to my door again [STEPHEN, spoken] Irina? [IRINA, spoken] Yes, umfundisi.  [STEPHEN, spoken] The trial begins tomorrow. Do you wish to be there? [IRINA, spoken] Yes, umfundisi.  [STEPHEN, spoken] He has askеd me—would you wish to marry him in the prison, so that your child will have his namе? [IRINA, spoken] Yes. Will they kill him? [STEPHEN, spoken] It is not known yet.  [IRINA, spoken] I wish him to live! I want him to come back to me! [STEPHEN, spoken] Even if it is many years? [IRINA, spoken] Yes.  [STEPHEN, spoken] I will tell him that you wish the marriage. Stay well.  [IRINA, spoken] Go well, my father.  (sung) When you have fled from me, my love, my own I've waited quietly here alone So come back at midnight Or come back at dawn Now that you're absent I weep, you gone Go well, though wild the road and far Stay well through darkening days Your star be still my luckiest star Your ways, the luckiest ways Though into storm your lone bark be driven Though my eyes ache for you in vain Though you bring fear at dawn, despair at even Stay well, come well to my door again