The Young Rose Of Koroit Poem by Francis Duggan

Her wavy shoulder length hair a light chestnut brown
The charming dark eyed beauty of old Koroit Town
With a beautiful smile and free of conceit
As nice a person as one could wish for to meet
Wherever she is joy is to be found
She carries it with her and spreads it around
Her type of girl does inspire song, story and rhyme
At twenty one years not yet in her life's prime
In Koroit perhaps she will not marry and raise children and grow old and gray
The wanderlust in her for Lands far away
From Koroit Town where she was raised and attended primary school
Eighteen kilometers of roadway from the City of Warrnambool
With sloe dark blue eyes and hair of light brown
The young Rose of the Moyne Shire and old Koroit Town.