BB, I was surprised that you said, "she wasn't telling them anything." I heard a version of this story but I believe they said the woman had been in a coma; at any rate her words just before her death were "Sunset, and evening star, and one clear call for me!"

I have always felt it's a very moving story, and that what she said was very meaningful; she was expressing her awareness of approaching death, and her faith and peacefulness in the face of death. In the poem the sunset is life's end; the evening star is a light that lasts after the sunset; and "one clear call for me" is a call to be willing to leave this world and "cross the bar." She was saying that she was willing, and at peace with death.

That's how I see it, anyway.

Genie & Gargoyle, thanks for making this tune and version of the song available.