She has never known it easy Lida who is fifty five today

Nor yellow robin piping lowWhere the traffic buzzes to and fro.Yet by her parents home in the freshening breezeUpon the sunlit wattle treesIn her flights of fancy she can hearThe butcherbird pipe loud and clear.She has lived in Geelong since last MayAnd though her old home only ninety kilometres awayNostalgia as it would appearCannot measure…

And you may smile but to you I do not lieWhen I say my only enemy is I.My enemy has another name ‘self doubt’And at party time he’s there to find me outHe whispers just remember you keep quietAs you’re dullest person in this room tonight.My enemy my confidence destroyHe keeps me down and builds…

An honest hard working fellow devoted to his family and his wifeIn death he will be remembered as he was admired in life.Since Paddy Forde left Claramore many years have come and goneAnd despite the passing of the Seasons life always does go onBut good people such as he was one never does forgetAnd fond…

Where butcherbird in his cloak of brown and grayPipe his bubbling notes in the quiet Rural dayThe water downhill to the great ocean flowYet so little of Nature’s ways I seem to knowAnd even students of Nature will tell you that theyLearn something new of her every living day.The workings of Nature beyond me to…

You work hard to provide for them yet them you cannot satisfyYou do your very best for them and to please them you don’t cease to try.Sometimes you do feel suicidal of any happiness you’re in despairBut a tiny voice from within you tells you for to hang in thereThere’s a way out of every…

And the paddocks around the Powlett river seem like an inland seaAnd water everywhere about as far as the eyes can see.The old bloke Mick scratches his head as he looks up at the skySaying more rain clouds o’er the ocean ’twill make a wetJulyOn either side of the highway from Bass into Wonthaggi there’s…