“Mary O’Meara“ (written by Poul Anderson and Anne Passovoy) performed by Bill Mills *Audio Only*

MARY O’MEARA (from the novel World Without Stars by Poul Anderson) (words: Poul Anderson, music: Anne Passovoy) Mary O’Meara, the stars and the dewfall Have covered your hilltop with light. The wind in the lilies that blossom around you Goes bearing your name from the height; My girl, you are all of the night. A ship out of shadow bears homeward by starlight, By stars, and the loom of your hill; A hand at a brow is uplifted in peering, Saluting and shaking with chill; My girl, are you waiting there still? I’ll sing you a song about Mary O’Meara, With stars like a crown in her hair, Sing of her memory ranging before me Wherever the way that I fare, My joy is to know she is there. The song shall ride home on the surf of the starlight, And leap to the shores of the sky, Take wing on the wind, and the odor of lilies, And Mary O’Meara-ward fly, And whisper your name where you lie. So softly you hear it now, Ma