The Song of the Sun was a poem that was known to the Romulan species. A particularly long stanze from it read: "I am They; I am the light of their shining save by me, how shall you see and behold Them? How shall anything else be seen save by the light of Their burning? How shall the shapes of things be known except that Truth burning give light thereto: how shall reality be disclosed without Them burning Themselves away? Fused, the atom dies, yet by its dying we see, Day by day, as the light boils up from the depths of the starheart: if the Elements for your sake so burn themselves to nothing, how much more you for each other? How are you less than They?