<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Merri River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the old brown paddocks it flows night and day<br>The great Merri river from here far away<br>Through the coastal lands of Warrnambool on it's way to the sea<br>Older than the age of the Dinosaurs it pre-dates history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has flowed for millions of centuries of time<br>The river that has inspired story and rhyme<br>In Nature's four Seasons Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring<br>Through old coastal lands where the brown bushlark sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great Merri river will flow forever more<br>To Warrnambool on to the Pacific shore<br>From it's dark deep pools the sea trout jump for fly<br>It has flowed through all Seasons and weather warm and dry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the long gone Dreamtime in the shade of the trees<br>The Indigenous people danced their corroborees<br>On the banks of the Merri in a corroboree ring<br>By the river they loved as they danced they did sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had lived here for centuries before Europeans came<br>And for their beloved river they had their own name<br>The river known to all as the Merri of today<br>On towards the Pacific it babbles it's way.</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=576547" data-title="The Great Merri River de Francis Duggan" data-description="Through the old brown paddocks it flows night and day The great Merri river from here far away Through the coastal lands of Warrnambool on it's way to the sea Older than the age of the Dinosaurs it pre-dates history. It has flowed for millions of..."></div> </div> </div>

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