In That Beautiful Place Poem by Francis Duggan

Far from the noise of the big town street
In the beautiful place where the waterways meet
The gray shrike thrush is whistling today
From the human hive of industry in view of the hills far away
Where natural beauty and peace does abide
Out there by the hills in the far countryside
In the home of the wallaby and kangaroo
And the big dark brown parrot known to many as the yellow tail black cockatoo
Where the creek flows into the river bound for the ocean shore
A journey of thirty kilometers or more
A pair of dark brown monarchs of the southern sky
The great wedge tail eagles do soar as they fly
In the bright sunshine of a beautiful day
Where the waterways meet by the hills far away.