The Southern Winter Solstice

In the sunny blue sky just a few clouds of gray On June the twenty first the southern year's shortest day For the southern Winter solstice a forecast high of fifteen degrees A pleasant day out of doors of scarcely any breeze A magpie lark in the green paddock is calling pee wee And a magpie is warbling on a sunlit gum tree Such beautiful weather for the time of year To Earthly Utopia this place has to be near Brown storm-water flowing in the roadside drain And the tiny frogs singing for to tell us of rain But for the southern Winter Solstice the weather sunny and clear And with every new dawn the calendar Spring draws near And a voice once heard one never again does get wrong The gray shrike thrush is whistling his beautiful song.