The first line of the song, "The sun had been up for a couple of hours, covered the ground with a layer of gold", is the opening line of the novel The Flight of the Heron by D. K. Broster.
Die erste Textzeile des Liedes („The sun had been up for a couple of hours, covered the ground with a layer of gold“) ist auch der Anfang der Novelle The Flight of the Heron von D. K. Broster.