On This Warm Summer Evening

On this warm Summer's evening beauty all around me A magpie is warbling on a sunlit gum tree A forecast high for the day of twenty four degrees And the air full of the buzzing of bush flies and bees The cattle sheltering from the sun and the breeze Lay chewing their cuds in the shade of the trees Of such natural beauty a poet would write For lovers of Nature to enjoy and read and recite The sweet scent of grass recently mowed for hay Is wafting in the breeze from the ocean bay And the paddocks lush, healthy looking and green after the recent December rain With such beautiful weather how can one complain And everywhere i turn to look i do see The natural beauty that is everywhere around me.