Australia the Land of the Dreamtime the home of the wombat and roo <br />The home of Koala and emu and the black and the white cockatoo <br />Where kookaburra welcomes the dawning and magpie often heard in the night <br />And the mopoke call of the brown boobook can be heard in the calm moonlight. <br /> <br />The descendants of the oldest Indigenous race of people live in Australia their history is very old <br />By tribal elders around bush camp fires their stories and legends are told <br />They lived in this Southern Country for this Land they had their own name <br />Long before the southern mountains they coughed up their rivers of flame. <br /> <br />Australia the Land of the Dreamtime the Land where the old Murray flow <br />From New South wales into Victoria and into a huge water-way grow <br />Winding on down through South Australia through the flat, bare and brown countryside <br />In the depths of the murky waters the rare Murray cod live and hide. <br /> <br />Australia the Land of the Dreamtime renowned for it's varying scenery <br />The brown and untameable outback that stretches inland from the sea <br />Of tropical and temperate climates of 20 to 40 plus degrees <br />The home of the marsupial possums and the Land of the tallest gum trees.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/australia-the-land-of-the-dreamtime/
