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Слушать(AI)Woman To Child
You who were darkness warmed my flesh where out of darkness rose the seed.
Then all a world I made in me; all the world you hear and see hung upon my dreaming blood.
There moved the multitudinous stars, and coloured birds and fishes moved.
There swam the sliding continents.
All time lay rolled in me, and sense, and love that knew not its beloved.
O node and focus of the world;
I hold you deep within that well you shall escape and not escape- that mirrors still your sleeping shape; that nurtures still your crescent cell.
I wither and you break from me; yet though you dance in living light I am the earth,
I am the root,
I am the stem that fed the fruit, the link that joins you to the night.
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was
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