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I said I'd ask Harold Feld if he'd give me permission to repost the song for Hal Clement that he posted to rec.music.filk. I did. He did. Here 'tis.

An SF Author Passes

By Harold Feld,
to the tune of: An Astrolger's Song by Kippling/Fish

To the Heavens above us oh look and behold!
The Sun in her anguish sheds tears of pure gold.
All stars and all planets join Terra in grief.
For one of her brightest souls sadly must leave.

The cosmos bears witness when great ones expire!
The Northern Lights dance as a funeral pyre!
The Sun and the Earth weave celestial shrouds,
As Terra is covered in ionic clouds.

Hal Clement we called him, though Stubbs was his name.
His smile won him friends while his pen won him fame.
A teacher, a mentor, an artist, and more,
The Sun feels his passing and shakes to her core.

Science, he taught, is not lifeless and dry.
He wrote tales of wonder; he painted the sky.
He served country in war; he taught children in peace.
Small wonder the Heavens now mark his release

The Sun flares in agony sending forth storms,
The new moon is sickly, the atmosphere warms,
All stars and all planets join Terra in grief
For one of her brightest souls sadly must leave