From Colac To Warrnambool Poem by Francis Duggan

In Spring a green countryside in Summer mostly brown
As you drive out of Colac on towards Camperdown
A flat open landscape though not lacking in trees
Where birds and animals can shelter from the sun, rain and breeze
Lots of sheep, horses, dairy and beef cattle for to see
On the highway to Warrnambool to the Pacific sea
In Summer mostly brown and in Spring mostly green
Between Colac and Warrnambool few houses to be seen
Though not lacking in beauty it does seem remote
I would write a poem of it were i born a poet
A countryside that has inspired many a story and rhyme
That would have changed much since the long gone Dreamtime
Where the first Australians lived and hunted and had their corroborees
On the warm Summer days in the shade of the trees.