John Shaw Neilson Of Nature

John Shaw Neilson of Nature in his verses did sing
Of The Orange Tree and The Little Blue Flower Of The Spring
And The Native Companions Dancing and The Poor Country Out There
Poets like he was as ever remain very rare
He began life on his hard journey to renown
In a humble shack in South Australia's Penola Town
Where from as a boy he moved with his family to the Victoria Town of Nhill
Where he grew to love and learn of Nature and hone his poetic skill
One who never fathered children or never had a wife
In Melbourne in Victoria he lived the last years of his life
Since John Shaw Neilson breathed his last sixty nine years in time has gone
But the poems of the Mallee's greatest poet alive and living on
A master wordsmith one of literary note
His name lives on as an exceptional poet.