On The Poet John Shaw Neilson

In Australian literature one worthy of note In his poems he lives on as a legendary poet In Nhill where he lived for many years his old cottage does stand As a memorial to a great of the Wimmera Mallee land With Australia's best poets he is one you could rate John Shaw Neilson's name lives as a poetic great Though he never had children or never had a wife And one who laboured quite hard for his living in life Far from Australia by poetry lovers in Lands far away His poems read and enjoyed and recited today Though long dead his poetic legend has grown His beautiful rhyme in a class of it's own In old age he had poor sight life to him was unkind But a better poet than him would be hard to find.