A Young Woman From Bass Poem by Francis Duggan

Her shoulder length hair is as dark as the wing of a crow
The one from the place where the Bass waters flow
And her beautiful smile is a pleasure to see
You will not meet one less conceited or lovelier than she.

From her Gippsland home she lives a two hours drive by car
In the twenty first century this does not seem far
From the village of Bass to the Melbourne Suburb of Footscray
For to drive does not even seem such a long way.

In the Village of Bass her beloved home place
She is known by all and her's is a loved face
But in the quiet Village few young people stay
More work near the city and much bigger pay.

A young woman from Bass one who has beauty rare
With chestnut brown eyes and raven dark hair
From where the Bass waters crawl down to the sea
And where the gray shrike thrush whistles on a coastal wattle tree.