The Gariwerd Ranges Poem by Francis Duggan

The stony hills of the Gariwerd in time very old
To the passing traveller rugged to behold
Where the indigenous tribes had their Corroborees in the Dreamtime
Mountains the subject of art and of story and rhyme
To the old stony hills where scrub and small trees grow
The Seasons they come and the Seasons they go
From Dunkeld to Halls Gap 65 kilometres a forty five minutes drive by car
For a range of mountains that does seem quite far
And from Halls Gap to Zumsteins another 20 kilometres or more
The Gariwerd Ranges at least in miles a distance of three score
The home of emu and wallaby and red deer and roo
The yellow tail black and the white cockatoo,
Kookaburra, rosella, pied and grey currawong
And magpie well known for his beautiful song.