The First Day Of Summer

A pleasant day with a slight cooling breeze And a forecast high of twenty five degrees And blackbird pipe on a coastal ti tree In Cape Paterson beside the Gippsland sea. The first of December Summer came overnight And Spring had left before the dawn's first light And thirty one days left in the old year When Summer comes to the Southern Hemisphere. in Gippsland further north the bushfires blaze And in New South Wales the woods have burnt for days And wise old Johnny gray as silver said Bushfires already and warmer days ahead. At midnight to the paddock and the park Summer arrived under the cloak of dark And bushfires blazed in the last days of Spring And in Cape Paterson the blackbird sing.