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Francis Duggan - WhereThe Murray Flows On Towards The Sea

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The old paddocks brown and bare looking they've outlived man's mortality <br />And cool blow the winds of September where the Murray crawls on towards the sea <br />I fancy I can hear the magpie piping on a lone blackwood tree <br />Mental pictures of wild rugged beauty embedded in my memory. <br /> <br />'Tis been said that old Murray is dying that on the river salinity is taking it's toll <br />That sandbars stop her flowing through to saltwater but all life is not gone from her soul <br />Many milleniums before the first humans before she was given her name <br />The Murray flowed on towards the ocean long before the dinosaurs came. <br /> <br />The black story tellers who lived by the Murray in their stories told of the Dreamtime <br />And they had their Corroborees by the river now honoured in lore and in rhyme <br />And still the old river is living though People like the Seasons come and go <br />And through the old land of the Dreamtime the Murray forever will flow. <br /> <br />It is said that the Murray is dying that salinity from her chokes life <br />But Nature will ensure her survival though salt in her waters now rife <br />And centuries from now when I am long gone and forgotten a magpie will pipe on a gum tree <br />In a paddock in that old brown country where the Murray crawls on towards the sea.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wherethe-murray-flows-on-towards-the-sea/

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