Name: Why All the Animals Sought Refuge In a Cave
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: The animals comment on how the fire has affected their lives.

Why All the Animals Sought Refuge In a Cave

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

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The animals comment on how the fire has affected their lives.

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WHY ALL THE ANIMALS SOUGHT REFUGE IN A CAVE

When the fire came along, we left our homes
We ran through the bushes and down steep hills
We swam across rivers and over the mountains
We ran through the grasses, we ran through rills.

But no matter what, no matter where;
The fire pursued us with glowering and growling
Hissing and roaring and crackling and growling and
Every tree it met it sent up howling

Skeletons of trees as black as Satan
Steaming like fissures it left in its trail
The rocks scorched bald, the earth scorched black,
Bound and determined was it to impale

So what were we to do, submit to the killing?
Drop to the ground and therefore expire?
No! We had to continue, our lives are too precious
We had to escape the ire of this fire.

So what were we to do? Where were we to go?
We looked for a place where we could all die sharing
We have come to the cave.