“Awake! the land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree.”
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
Awake, My Heart, to Be Loved, l. 13-14.
Poetry
“See the light ram through the gaps in the land.
Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
'Til you near him on the motorway
And the tree begin to breathe.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
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