Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
—A.E. Housman
(Used in Nicolas Roeg’s brilliant masterpiece to summarize the teen girl’s and her young brother’s transition from innocence to experience, but, ironically, also the Aboriginal boy’s loss of his cultural ways, and beyond that, the loss of other earlier, more nature-based cultures)