The Beautiful Place To My Thoughts Ever Near Poem by Francis Duggan

I long to be far from this loud city street
Where the creek from the hill and the river does meet
And the shrike thrush does sing on the black wattle tree
The beautiful place lives in my memory
Where the kookaburras laugh on the tall trees nearby
In the dark just before day's light does brighten the sky
In a place of human created pollution free
In fancy the beautiful place i do see
Great natural beauty at it's best to be seen
Where the Goddess of Nature she does reign supreme
In the home of the wallaby and kangaroo
And the big dark brown parrot known as the weerloo
And though the noise of loud traffic is all i do hear
The beautiful place to my thoughts ever near.