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Dream into being. |
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Ancestors eternal, |
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two giants faternal, |
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wielding stone knives. |
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Upon shapeless bodies, |
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the All-Father's follies, |
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they carve human lives. |
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Sun Mother! |
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Wake unborn seeds |
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to grow, |
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snakes to bleed |
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mighty rivers |
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that quiver and |
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flow. |
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The light on the oils, |
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a spectrum of coils: |
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Rainbow Serpent. |
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The storm clouds empowered, |
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crying orhpans devoured, |
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drowned in its currents. |
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Eaglehawk, |
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your children slain |
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by Crow, |
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split your pain! |
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Through the brush you stalk, |
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draped in quills of flame. |
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Raven dyed in smoke, |
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entombed birds reborn, |
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locked in everlasting strife. |
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Mourn the songs |
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of times past. |
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Prisons |
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engorged with |
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risen |
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"savages," |
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the first |
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to forge myths. |
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Still, thrist |
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ravages |
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all. |
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Proud First People |
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beneath the steeple |
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of a white ogd. |
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Whole trives accused, |
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children abused. |
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No spared rod. |
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Terra |
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nullius, |
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bearer |
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of disease. |
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Slowly |
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breathe in this |
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lowly |
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gasoline |
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death. |
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Culture borken, |
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half-castles stolen, |
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a mother's shout. |
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The flaying of skin, |
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eugenic sin, |
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black bred out. |
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A swallowing torrent |
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once swept the abhorrent |
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beneath the foam. |
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May spirits of rain |
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rise up once again, to |
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shape the land we roam. |
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Uluru, |
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battle of snakes, |
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the earth |
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roused awake |
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to tremble anew, |
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a howling mountainous birth. |
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Demons spawned of mud |
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sculpt generations in their blood. |