In Olinda Today

The rain falling in drizzle the sky gloomy gray Above high wooded Olinda on a cold Winter's day A cold breeze is soughing in the eucalypt trees A forecast high for the day of a cold five degrees One of the coldest parts in Winter in Australia it does seem this way The sun will not shine in Olinda today One of the birds one does hear every day of the year The voice of the magpie always pleasant to hear And a bird quite familiar in his distinctive song The pee wee of the magpie lark one could never get wrong In the rank grass that fringes the water filled drain The tiny frogs sing in the drizzling rain And feathers drenched from the rain on a branch of a tree The kookaburra calls to proclaim territory.