August In Illowa

The sun it is hidden behind clouds of gray But the magpies are singing in Illowa today And the magpie larks calling in their familiar pee wee Familiar Australians one often hear and see August in Illowa a cool and wet time of year At the back end of Winter with the birth of Spring near The migratory white cattle egrets eating insects disturbed by the cattle as they graze The workings of Nature never cease to amaze The first of the calendar Spring the first of September less than four weeks away And the grass it is growing in a few months from now the farmers will be baling hay In Illowa the blackbirds will soon be heard sing In the warmer weather of September in the early Spring The weather is often windy, wet and cool In August in Illowa near the City of Warrnambool.