Illowa Today Poem by Francis Duggan

Far south of the fields where the waterways meet
In the green countryside near the Town of Millstreet
In the coastal freshening breeze white butterflies play
And the magpies are singing in Illowa today
March in the Moyne Shire such a nice time of year
The blue and gray sky often sunny and clear
In the coastal countryside between Koroit and Warrnambool
The Autumnal weather is pleasant and never too warm or too cool
On this nice Autumn evening of twenty degrees
The songs of the pee wees carrying in the breeze
And with the sun on their wings in the blue and gray sky
Above the brown paddocks the dark swallows fly
Far south of the fields of the rook and gray crow
Where Finnow the white river to the Blackwater flow.