From Deniliquin to Jerilderie paddocks gray and bare and brown <br />On to Narrandera and West Wyalong and many smaller country town, <br />To Forbes and Parkes and on through Dubbo, Gilgandra and Coonabarabran <br />Miles and miles of weary travel through the world of outback man. <br /> <br />On to Narribri and then to Moree on the north bound Newell highway <br />Through New South Wales the country's first State on a sunny April day <br />And we cross the Queensland border just after the sun go down <br />And we spend our first night in the Sunshine State in Goondiwindi Town. <br /> <br />Lettered signboards along the highway 'stop and rest for to survive' <br />From Victoria to South Queensland it's a long and tiring drive <br />For to see all of Australia it might take a century <br />It's a vast and open country and a lot of land to see. <br /> <br />Miles and miles of sunburnt country here and there a patch of green <br />Flocks of sheep and herds of cattle in the brownest land I've seen, <br />Kangaroos victims of traffic ravens pecking at their eyes <br />Here and there along the highway left as fodder for the flies. <br /> <br />This vast land of wondrous beauty is too big for man to tame <br />It's a wild and rugged country for want of a better name <br />Just a small part of Australia but the journey seems quite far <br />If you travel from Victoria to south Queensland in a car. <br /> <br />From the wooded hills of Sherbrooke to Echuca's border Town <br />On through New South Wales and northwards though a country wild and brown <br />On beyond South Queensland border to rest after tiring day <br />Just a small part of Australia but it seems a long, long way.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-victoria-to-south-queensland-by-car/
