Then the hues of the Anthistiria grass, of a redbrown, contrasted most harmoniously with the light green bushes, grey driftwood, blue water, and verdure by its margin; all these again-grass, verdure, driftwood, and water-were so opposed to the dark hues of the Casuarinae, Mimosae, and Rifted rocks, that a Ruysdael, or a Gains-borough, might there have found an inexhaustible stock of subjects for their pencil.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
Above thy head, through Rifted clouds, there shines A glorious star.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Weary hearts by thee are lifted, Struggling souls by thee are strengthened, Clouds of fear asunder Rifted, Truth from falsehood cleansed and sifted, Lives, like days in summer, lengthened!
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow