let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within.
Haunted by tribal memories, I know
This little now, whose long making
Is so much of the past.
Tonight here in Sunurbia as I sit
In easy chair before electric heater,
Warmed by the red glow, I fall into dream:
I am away
At the camp fire in teh bush, among
My own people, sitting on the ground,
No walls about me,
The stars over me,
The tall surrounding trees that stir in the wind
Making their own music.
Soft cries of the night coming to us, there
Where we are one with old Nature's lives
Known and unknown,
in scenes where we belong but have now forsken.
Deep chair and electric radiator
Are but since yesterday,
But a thousand thousand camp fires in the forest
Are in my blood.
Let none tell me the past is wholly gone
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