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Same sun

By  Claire Barber 1998
Same Sun When the gold prospector arrived he saw the sun glinting on a reef that was to be one of the richest in the world and so the place was named Day Dawn When the priest arrived his heart sank when he saw the sunrise over a flat and dreary wilderness of baked red clay at the place, a ghost of its former self, called Day Dawn Extract from The Red Gown artists book by Claire Barber (Western Academy of Performing Arts 1998).
C B Claire Barber

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