On My Journeys South Of Clara Poem by Francis Duggan

Though the landscapes I have been through as a whole more brown than green
On my journeys south of Clara great beauty I have seen
I've done a bit of travelling and I've lived in many a town
And a few highways and byways I have journeyed up and down
Where the roo and the wallaby hop quickly and the echidna moves slow
Some of the birds of this Southern Country by their songs I've got to know
Their chirpings and songs familiar doesn't change from day to day
Each in their own voice distinctive for that is Nature's way
The different wild-born creatures one see vary from place to place
The amazing thing about Nature is that her's is a changing face
I have travelled far from Clara in the warm Lands of the South
Through green and fertile places and places brown and bare from drought
But whereever our journeys take us to places near or far away
Of the marvellous World of Nature we learn something every day.