And I'll feel "Now I'm home again! Ah! but I'm welcome here."
Clear in the opal sunset I shall see the Kundahs lie
And the sweep of the hills shall fill my heart as the roll of the Downs my eye;
And I'll see Snowdon and Staircase and the green of the Lovedale Wood,
And the dear sun shining on Ooty, and oh! but I'll find it good;
For I'll have what I wanted, and all the worrying done,
Because I'm back to the Blue Mountains and they and I are one.
There's peace beyond understanding, solace beyond desire
For minds that are over-weary, for bodies that toil and tire,
And over all that a something, a something that says, "You know,