Kates Song Book

Pearl of the West
Siobhan ni h’Eodusa
Where the young sun leaps from cover
So to rule the growing day,
I first looked on the beloved --
I will never look away.
Clad in green, crowned in gold,
Rich in grace manifold.
I fell captive in the springtime,
By the ever-sounding bay.
While the heart beats in my breast,
I must pledge it, and my hand,
To the Pearl of the West,
Where the seas kiss the land.
Where the day's eye, in his splendor,
Oversees the swelling corn,
I swore faith and tender friendship --
I will never be forsworn.
As the bright banners flew,
I wore silver and blue,
And I burned with summer's ardor
Underneath the flowering thorn.
While the heart...
Where the sunset bleeds in scarlet
Over ricks of tawny sheaves,
I rejoiced there in my darling --
I will never have to grieve.
Duties part us a while;
Though between us stand miles,
I read messages of favor
In the autumn's crimson leaves.
While the heart...
Where the midnight burns like diamonds
Scattered by a hidden hand,
I stood fast in floodtides climbing --
I will never fail to stand.
Though the storm rage and sigh,
One shall be true as I,
As the live oak through the winter:
My beloved, my Mistland.
While the heart...
April 1999, Leigh Ann Hussey
In 1983, when Brandon d'Arundel was Prince of the Mists and Siobhan was his Bard, he commanded her to write a song
that would stand for the West as Fair Mistlands stands for the Mists. Twelve years later, that song emerged as To the
West. In the Fall of 1998, right after Maeren became Princess of the Mists, she asked Siobhan to write a song that would
stand for the Mists as To the West stands for the West, that song became Pearl of the West and was first performed at
Spring Coronet 1999.
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