In The Bendigo Botanical Gardens

In the Bendigo City Botanical Gardens for it's beautiful trees of many countries in renown The roosting fruit bats in their thousands on bare branches hanging upside down The smell of their muskiness from the higher trees Comes wafting through the parkland in the freshening breeze And one or two of them at intervals do fly For to roost on branch more to their liking nearby At nightfall from their roosting trees they do fly Beyond the City through kilometers of sky In search of fruit bearing trees and return at break of day To the Botanical Gardens for their daylight stay The roosting fruit bats in Bendigo's Botanical Gardens only one of Nature's wonders for to see But of there i carry the memory with me Of the fruit bats in their thousands roosting upside down Of dark bodies and gray heads and necks of russet brown.