R.I.P. Mary

"Something has spoken to me  in the night,

Burning the tapers of the waning year;

Something has spoken in the night,

And told me I shall die, I know not where.

Saying:

"To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing;

To lose the life you have, for greater life;

To leave the friends you loved, for greater loving;

To find a land more kind than home, more larger than earth-

"Whereon the pillars of this earth are founded,

Toward which the conscience of the world is tending-

A wind is rising, and the rivers flow."

Thomas Wolfe