The Temperature At Forty Degrees

The temperature at 40 degrees And great warmth in the breath of the breeze The birds and the animals retreat To the shade of the trees for relief from the heat On such weather most people indoors like to stay The park is deserted today Lucky that days such as today are quite rare Since such high temperatures can be hard to bear Yet the magpie who sings all the year His warbling melodious and clear And the pee wee of the magpie lark Does echo in the nearby park A rise in the temperature of 20 degrees in two days the weather acting strange We are in the age of Climate change The paddocks looking bare and brown And the temperatures soar and drop down The warmest day thus far of the New Year And the prime of the Summer quite near A high of a humid forty degrees And great warmth in the breath of the breeze