At quarter to twelve the golden disc of the sun, at present seen only by refraction, appeared and bestowed its last rays on this lonely continent, on these seas that man had never sailed.
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
- Job 38:25-27 (NIV)
