Ospreys and Unicorns
The world's in an awful
mess We ruin her more or less
We build and burn Showing no concern
For the
creatures we dispossess
But this I believe is true
There's plenty we still can do
To tip the scales
On the side of the whales
And maybe the tigers too
Oh hear what the doubters say "The wilderness had its day
The trees are dead The beasts have fled
And the birds
have all flown away"
But see what belief has done
It shines like an extra sun
And now we've a sky
Where the eagles fly
And a land where the otters run.
For ospreys
and unicorns were dreamed of but never seen
Lost to these islands
long ago, as if they had never been
But ospreys and unicorns,
weren't really that far away
And now that we've got the ospreys
back,
There'll be unicorns any day
Copyright Allan Bantick 2004