Australia The Beautiful

There are bright sunny days even when Winter is about In Australia the beautiful Land of the south For the holidaying tourist so much for to see In the home of pittosporum and wattle and eucalypt tree The Land of koala, wallaby, wombat and roo And many species of parrots including cockatoo And emu and cassowary big birds that cannot fly And hawks, falcons and harriers and eagles including the wedge tailed the monarch of the southern sky And small birds such as fly catchers, honeyeaters, pardalotes and thornbills with ways of their own And the blue winged and laughing kookaburras as Australians well known And species of frogmouths and nightgars and owls the hunters of the night That by day rest in dark places out of the sunlight And pittas, bowerbirds and gray and pied and black currawong And the superb lyrebird in the bird World the greatest mimic of song Human sounds and chainsaws and the birds of their neighborhood they imitate There is so much in Australia for one to celebrate Possums, gliders, bandicoots, pademelons quolls, numbats and tasmanian devils creatures nowhere else to be seen You are missing out on so much if to Australia you have never been The Land of an old race of people the inspiration of song, story and rhyme The descendants of the legends of the dreaming time Than beautiful coastal cities and beaches to Australia there is far more In the variable scenery far inland from the ocean shore In the flat and dry country wide open and brown As you drive on the highway from country town to town Australia from State to State of varying climatic degrees In the high woodlands of the south east the mountain ash among the World's tallest trees In this vast and amazing beautiful Land of the south There is so much to see and for to talk about.