The First Of December

To Australia in the Southern Pacific Summer has made her way The first of December a beautiful day Song birds sing and whistle on the sunlit trees And the sweet scent of hay wafts in the warm breeze The air full of the buzzings of flies and of bees On a temperature high of twenty seven degrees The swallows above the sunlit paddock chirp as they fly And for food the young magpies to their parents cry The creek flowing at a trickle and the water dam low But despite climate change the Seasons come and go The paddocks around are looking lush and green And beautiful flowers everywhere to be seen The first of December and birds chirp and sing It's welcome to Summer and good bye to Spring.