Old hills around Archies Creek you once had many trees <br />Before Cook and his sailors sailed down the southern seas <br />And placed the flag of England on this far southern shore <br />And something of great beauty to be changed forever more. <br /> <br />This Shire now known as South West Gippsland to the first Australians belong <br />A tribe of Aboriginal people known as the Bunurong <br />The first pioneering people came and cut the tall gums down <br />And left the hills bare those old green hills that in Summer now look brown. <br /> <br />The original owners of this Land of it took such good care <br />They would feel disappointed now to see those hills so bare <br />But the changes keep on happening and nothing stays the same <br />And for environmental vandalism humans always are to blame. <br /> <br />The old hills around Archies Creek are looking very bare <br />And where trees once were in abundance they now are rather rare <br />Where the black tribes up to two hundred years ago had their corroborees and song <br />The people of the Dreamtime known as the Bunurong.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-hills-around-archies-creek/
