[1] It was originally published in Meanjin in Winter 1948, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
[1] Gazing out of a train window during a night journey the poet sees the stark Australian landscape illuminated under a bright moon.
She sees both the inherent beauty of the scenery and the harsh realities of the trees that must forge an existence in the unforgiving ground.
Reviewing the 1950 version of the anthology The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse for The Age Michael Thwaites commented that Wright's poem "goes beyond description to interpretation and evocation."
Calling Wright Australia's "best lyric poet now writing", the reviewer noted that she "shows the distinctive poetic faculty of using words so as to convey far more than their literal surface meaning.