The flowering gums a blaze of crimson flowers <br />And old March will soon give way to April hours <br />And elm once so green now wear some brown <br />And one by one her leaves start floating down <br />To mother earth who take back what she give <br />A leaf has but a few short months to live. <br /> <br />Today it made some heavy showers of rain <br />And the forecast for tomorrow showers again <br />And on the tall gum trees across the way <br />The currawong been singing all the day <br />He always sing his song when rain is near <br />And you always hear him at this time of year. <br /> <br />The kookaburras laugh in harmony <br />And they live together as a family <br />And when kookaburra laugh the old man say <br />That rain can never be too far away <br />And Autumn winds blow with a touch of chill <br />Down through Kallista down from Sherbrooke hill. <br /> <br />Some heavy showers up to and at mid day <br />And old March to April soon has to give way <br />And pied currawong on the high gum tree call <br />As elm lose her beauty to the fall <br />And flowering gum now in her beauty's prime <br />Blends in well with the shades of Autumn time.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shades-of-autumn-time/
