The Australian Sunrise-Barry Ryan

[ti:The Australian Sunrise] [ar:Barry Ryan] [al:Orchestral Songs of Australia] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Australian Sunrise - Barry Ryan [00:25.71]The morning star paled slowly the cross hung low to the sea [00:35.26]And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free [00:43.52] [00:44.44]The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night [00:52.52] [00:53.14]Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light; [01:03.16] [01:11.46]Still in the dying darkness still in the forest dim [01:19.78] [01:20.38]The pearly dew of the dawning clung to each giant limb [01:28.49] [01:29.02]Till the sun came up from the ocean red with the cold sea mist [01:38.60]And smote on the limestone ridges and the shining tree-tops kissed [01:51.37] [02:09.05]Then the fiery Scorpion vanished the magpie's note was heard [02:18.86]And the wind in the she-oak wavered and the honeysuckles stirred [02:29.15]The airy golden vapour rose from the river breast [02:38.46]The kingfisher came darting out of his crannied nest [02:47.54]And the bulrushes and reed-beds put off their sallow gray [02:57.15]And burnt with cloudy crimson at dawning of the day [03:09.37] [03:13.44]Morning spaled slowly the cross hung low to the sea [03:21.84]And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free [03:30.46] [03:31.30]The lustrous purple blackness of the soft Australian night [03:39.77] [03:40.51]Waned in the gray awakening that heralded the light