These are life’s treasurings:
The sudden sun through rain;
Stars on a frosty night;
Grass rippling o’er the plain;
Tempest grown still;
Hearth-fires when long roads end;
Candle-light in a quiet room;
And the still silence of a friend.
(Dame Mary Gilmore DBE)
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