Douglas Stewart - The Snow-Gum lyrics

It is the snow-gum silently, In noon's blue and the silvery Flowering of light on snow. Performing its slow miracle Where upon drift and icicle Perfect lies its shadow. Leaf upon leaf's fidelity, The creamy trunk's solidity, The full-grown curve of the crown, It is the tree's perfection Now shown in clear reflection Like flakes of soft grey stone. Out of the granite's eternity, Out of the winter's long enmity, Something is done on the snow; And the silver light like ecstasy Flows where the green tree perfectly Curves to its perfect shadow.