Hello my beautiful world Hello my beautiful world Hello land, hello sea Hello mountain clothed in trees Hello desert, hello cave Hello valleys, hello waves Hello moon that pulls the tide Late stars shine and pass through time Tugging wind and powder snow Hello eagle, hello crow Field of grazing kangaroo Watched from above by cockatoo Hello saltbush, island, reef Hello love and hello grief Epic distance, comic time Hello moss and heath and vine Hello colour, hello light Hello sound and heat and sight Hello blossom, hello flame Hello blood and lung and vein Hello dust and clay and coal Aged tortoise, tender foal Hissing forest, pulsing plain Frosted highlands, rocky bays Gleaming school of silver fish Move of one mind on bone ribbed fins Hello spider, hello lion A beating heart, a compound eye Hello palms and gum and birch Endless death and endless birth Hello wolf and bear and boar Hello mortal, man of war High kelp forests, sway and sing Golden sap and silver steam Rising flood and rolling storm Lighting sets the hills to burn Hello aching blue whale song White harp seals and large black swans Hello prairie, hello pine Hello quartz and dolomite Blushing toadstool after rain Buffalo and standing grain A glacier A hot pink night A rainbow bent across the sky Hello granite, hello sand Ancient fig and birth slick lamb Hello shoal and stand and herd Owl wings beat but go unheard Lifetimes stacked, up end to end Pulling back where it began Breathe until your dying breath Hello life and hello death Hello my beautiful world Hello my beautiful world