<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567450" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Moonlit Night In July</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A full moon does silently creep it's way across the starlit sky<br>And the flute of the magpie I hear on this cool Winter night in July<br>He does not sing for the love of song he sings to defend territory<br>Whilst most others birds are asleep he pipes high on a wattle tree<br>With a wife and a nest to defend in his nesting time of the year<br>He pipes a warning to males of his kind that to us sounds melodious and clear, <br>The spur wing plovers in the park above their nesting grounds do fly<br>They scream at the dog, fox or cat who to their ground nest is prowling nearby<br>In the calm of a Winter night of such beauty a Nature Poet would write<br>A poem that lovers of Nature poetry would read and to others feel glad to recite<br>On a gum tree a brush tail possum calls for a mate his hoarse voice one cannot mistake<br>He will be in the dark ceiling of a nearby house before the sun rise at daybreak<br>And the boobook owl calls out mopoke a night predator of human kind shy<br>The nocturnal creatures out and about on a moonlit night in July.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567450" data-title="On A Moonlit Night In July de Francis Duggan" data-description="A full moon does silently creep it's way across the starlit sky And the flute of the magpie I hear on this cool Winter night in July He does not sing for the love of song he sings to defend territory Whilst most others birds are asleep he pipes hi..."></div> </div> </div>

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