The last Bard of South Gippsland has wandered far away <br />He last was seen six months ago up north in Byron Bay <br />But he has not been seen since then perhaps he's wandered on <br />And South Gippsland the poorer since the last bard has gone. <br /> <br />Who will write songs of Gippsland now there is none left to sing <br />Of Victoria's greenest country side since northward the bard did wing <br />The birds care for their nestlings now the magpie flutes all day <br />And the last Bard of South Gippsland is living far away. <br /> <br />He wrote about the high country the flatlands by the sea <br />And he wrote about the butcherbird that piped on wattle tree <br />The possum and kookaburra, wattlebird and currawong <br />Were familiar to the bush bard and for each he wrote a song. <br /> <br />The creek from the high country whispers down to the sea <br />And high above the paddock the lark pipes merrily <br />It's scenes such as I witness here that inspired the rhyming poet <br />And about such things of beauty South Gippsland's last bard wrote. <br /> <br />The last Bard of South Gippsland 'her last great man of rhyme' <br />Has moved up north towards Queensland to seek the warmer clime <br />He had an eye for beauty call it 'poetic eye' <br />And he has left his Gippsland poems for others to enjoy.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-last-bard-of-south-gippsland/
