The morning was cool and windless in that old Victorian town <br />And the rain came down in drizzles as we drove from Camperdown <br />The paddocks dry from the long dry spell and looking bare and brown <br />And in the first week of February Mother Nature wore her russet gown. <br /> <br />The creeks had all but dried up and the river trickled slow <br />And in miles of sun parched paddocks the grass needs more rain to grow <br />This is a dry old Country and the Summer's been so dry <br />And despite the mid morning drizzle there's not much rain in the sky. <br /> <br />It was drizzling only slightly as we drove out of Camperdown <br />But the sun was out and shining driving into Terang Town <br />And the farmers in bare paddocks to their cattle feeding hay <br />And for South Western Victoria looks like another warm day. <br /> <br />The morning calm and drizzly and for February it seemed cool <br />But the sun was brightly shining driving into Warrnambool <br />And the silver gulls were mewing in the parks beside the sea <br />In the sunshine of Victoria on a day in February.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-summer-s-day-in-south-west-victoria/
