Though I Have Seen

Though i have seen in their wild state emu, koala, wallaby and roo I have not seen the Pyramids or been to Timbuctoo Or see a Summer sunrise light the sky at daybreak Above the waters of Lake Baikal the World's largest spring lake I have heard the birds singing at the break of day In Spring in the leafy woods of the Catskills from here far away And in St Davids in Wales on a long gone May I have seen the white waves roll into Lleithy bay I have seen the snow on Mt Fugi in Japan Though this does not mean i am a well traveled man So much of the World that i never will see So many have seen much more of it than me Though some wonders of Nature i have witnessed with my eyes From the boiling terminal springs in Rotorua i have seen the steam rise Memories of the strong smell of sulphur in the air with me does stay Old memories do linger as some like to say In the high woods of Yarra Ranges home to Kookaburra, crimson rosella, wombat and pied and gray currawong I have heard the magpies, whipbirds, lyrebirds and gray shrike thrushes in song Yet so much of the World that i never will see And so many have seen far more of it than me.