Name: The Garden
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: Aski is the Cree word for the part of the world that is not covered by water.

The Garden

from The Cave by John Millard, Tomson Highway and Martha Ross

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Aski is the Cree word for the part of the world that is not covered by water.

lyrics

THE GARDEN

Once on this Earth,
This garden called Aski
Lakes and forests and rivers resonated
With their fragrance, their music,
Their fulsome movement
Thus nudging to the fore all things that invigorated.

With joy, with laughter,
With vaulting insouciance
With an enthusiasm that shouted out
That “residence on Earth is celebration-worthy,
And rhythm to be danced to
For life, for death but, above all, for birth.

So there in that garden
lived all these creatures
This vaulting insouciance
had encouraged to emerge

From the veins of the Earth,
from its bloodstream, ahh,
To emerge then to flourish and to surge

To life for the Raven, the Sparrow
To life for the Whale, for the Bear!
And the Beaver and the Heron
And the Crow and Chickadee,
The Fox and the Snake and the Hare!