I saw the beauty go,
The beauty that, in a stream
Flowed through the breadth of the land
Like the fenceless foot of a dream.
There went the kangaroos, that, in hosts,
For the bedding-down grouped at eve,
Only the sound of the nibbling lips
Making the sunset steven,
They, as they stilled, and the moon
With her white cloths mantled the trees,
From the shadows beneath the mopoke called,
And the curlew made her please.
I saw the beauty go,
The beauty that could not be tamed;
But before it went it looked at me
With the eyes of the maimed.
(Dame Mary Gilmore DBE)
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