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When you've acquired a taste for dust,

The scent of our first rain,

You're hooked for life on Africa

And you'll not be right again

Till you can watch the setting moon

And hear the jackals bark

And know that they're around you,

Waiting in the dark.

When you long to see the elephants

Or to hear the coucal's song,

When the moonrise sets your blood on fire,

You've been away too long

It's time to cut the traces loose

And let your heart go free

Beyond that far horizon,

Where your spirit yearns to be.

Africa is waiting - come!

Since you've touched the open sky

And learned to love the rustling grass,

The wild fish-eagle’s cry.

You'll always hunger for the bush,

For the lion's rasping roar,

To camp at last beneath the stars

And to be at peace once more.

Emily C. Dibb (The Conundrum Trees)