So Great To Be Living Poem by Francis Duggan

How nice for to wake in the dawn cool and gray
And hear the birds sing for to welcome the day
On the trees in the park by the street near the bay
So great to be living is all one can say
Yellow flowers on the wattles a beautiful thing
In the cool showers of Winter near the calendar Spring
With pink blossoms appearing on the fruit bearing trees
And the dampness of rain in the freshening breeze
The magpies sing at night when the Spring it is near
In the moonlight their warbling notes pleasant to hear
In late Winter in the Southern Land when the grass growing winds blow
And Nature wakes from hibernation and grass commence to grow
The calendar Spring just a few weeks away
So great to be living for to greet the new day.