On Australia Day 2014

A bit of the big World out there i have seen Since last i saw bluebells on the ditch of bohreen When the hawthorns were in their white blooms of the May And the wildflowers were in the old fields far away This is going back in springs twenty seven ago And time that does age all it has become my foe Yet so few years to live and so much for to see Like is said time does not wait it did not wait for me In Summer in south west Victoria on Australia Day The sweet scent of grass in a nearby paddock recently mowed for hay Such nice weather for late January with scarcely any breeze And a temperature high for the day of twenty five degrees In parks in every village and town and city in Australia today People assemble to listen to the speeches and to hear the bands play Where people of many different cultures and races to party do meet The sounds of laughter, song and music to the ears always sweet But i like the quiet place where Nature's beauty abound Where the song of a bird is the loudest sound Where the nearest person is not anywhere near On Australia's biggest party day of the year.