Paul Laszlo-歌词

5. The Australian Sunrise - Gavin Lockley/Sharolyn Kimmorley/Sonja Schebeck/Paul Laszlo

Written by：Gavin Lockley/Banjo Patterson

The Morning Star paled slowly

The Cross hung low to the sea

And down the shadowy reaches

The tide came swirling free

The lustrous purple blackness of

The soft Australian night

Waned in the gray awakening

That heralded the light

Still in the dying darkness

Still in the forest dim

The pearly dew of the dawning

Clung to each giant limb

Till the sun came up from ocean

Red with the cold sea mist

And smote on the limestone ridges

And the shining tree-tops kissed

Then the fiery Scorpion vanished

The magpie's note was heard

And the wind in the she-oak wavered

And the honeysuckles stirred

The airy golden vapour

Rose from the river breast

The kingfisher came darting out

Of his crannied nest

And the bulrushes and reed-beds

Put off their sallow gray

And burnt with cloudy crimson

At dawning of the day

The Morning Star paled slowly

The Cross hung low to the sea

And down the shadowy reaches

The tide came swirling free

The lustrous purple blackness of

The soft Australian night

Waned in the gray awakening

That heralded the light