The Merri Poem by Francis Duggan

Through paddocks and by hedgerows near Warrnambool Town
The Merri's dark waters slowly wind down
To the Pacific ocean that rumble and roar
And splashes on rocks on the Warrnambool foreshore
The old Merri waterway so old in time
The river that has inspired song, story and rhyme
Long before the arrival of the first humans thousands of years ago
To the great Southern ocean the Merri did flow
By the banks of the river in the shade of the trees
The Indigenous tribes danced their Corroborees
The changes keep happening the tribes are long gone
But the old waterway goes babbling on
To the great Pacific slowly winding it's way
By Warrnambool Town by night and by day.