across the gully is another place a different world with silver roughbarked trees where stubborn beasts resist you on their knees while walls and fences leave a proper trace for those bewildered nature shows her face in complicated motions that each sees in the raw colours and the harsh decrees that come upon us with the morning's grace so this is recollection of the sight from high above broad river as the grey of false dawn marks the ending of the night but here and now the moment cannot stay we've paid hard cash for all that we have lost and got no credit for the hills we've crossed