<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Second Week Of January</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the second week of January I hear the shrike thrush sing<br>His flute like notes so pleasant to them have a familiar ring<br>And Spring is but a memory and Summer near her prime<br>And that birds sing out of Season happens all of the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The piping of the white backed magpie his is a familiar song<br>By their songs Nature's feathered minstrels one cannot get them wrong<br>A pleasant Summer's morning 'twill make a pleasant day<br>And the paddocks of Wonthaggi scent sweetly of baled hay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a clearing I am standing surrounded by scrub trees<br>In such places the Aboriginal dancers had their Corroborees<br>They danced on Summer evenings before the sun went down<br>Long before there was a Gippsland or a Wonthaggi Town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A morning on the second week of January with a warm summery breeze<br>And a forecast high for the afternoon of 25 degrees<br>One might say perfect weather for the time of year<br>North in New South Wales and Queensland 'tis warmer by far than here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the second week of January the weather warm and dry<br>And a goldfinch he is singing on a wattle tree nearby<br>And brown butterflies are dancing in the sunny morning sky<br>And Mother Nature's natural beauty is for all to enjoy.</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=567615" data-title="On The Second Week Of January de Francis Duggan" data-description="On the second week of January I hear the shrike thrush sing His flute like notes so pleasant to them have a familiar ring And Spring is but a memory and Summer near her prime And that birds sing out of Season happens all of the time. The piping o..."></div> </div> </div>

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