A Cold Winter's Day

The weather cold and overcast in the middle of July And cold jack frost blows with his chilly breath across the Winter sky And in Kyneton, Trentham and Daylesford they have had a fall of snow And the temperatures at zero and the weather glass is low From Spring through Summer to late Fall the weather warm and dry And for days on end the sun was burning in the clear blue sky But the rain and snow is needed now and people pray for more For the paddocks at this time of year never dry as this before Yet today I saw a magpie despite the Wintery chill Fly from the ground to a tall gum tree with a twig in his bill For to build a nest an early sign of the approach of Spring Of late in the darkness of the night I hear his kin bird sing In parts of Central Victoria it is snowing, cattle bellowing for hay And the cold breath of jack frost in the wind it has been a chilly day.