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I HEAR THE SONGS
I have not your Dreaming, Oodgeroo,
Know not the tales your people knew,
Vague yearning stirs awarenesss through
the lines you've penned,
and clearly
I hear the songs tall red-gums sigh
To music scored on wind tossed sky,
And in the mournful curlew's cry
I feel The Old Ones near me.
Sweet poetry of ibis flight,
Uluru's age sculptured height,
Quicksilver dance of stars at night
bewitch my heart,
beguiling
With a sense that time and space have slipped,
Brown hand, white hand, in friendship gripped,
Overpowering scent of eucalypt -
The Spirits gently smiling.
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