Lex McLennan

Lex McLennan was a farmer's son from the Bathurst countryside of New South Wales
One destined to become famous as a writer of bush stories, poems and tales
He grew to love the workings of Nature when he was a young boy
And to those who love the ways of country life his writings remain as a source of joy

His excellent poems The Last Piker and The Dingo Chaser have outlived the death of rhyme
Poems today that are even more popular than in their author's lifetime
He was one who did love Mother Nature and of her ways much did know
And though deceased for many decades fans of his poetry in numbers grow

Lex McLennan wrote the ballads that will live for centuries
Great poems that found their inspiration in his boyhood memories
One of the last great writers of Australian bush ballads of him one can truly say
His writings of Nature quite insightful and with words he had a way

As a writer of bush ballads greatness of him cannot be denied
Lex McLennan learned of Nature in the wide brown countryside
Those who like his sort of poetry as fans of his poems remain
Just reading them great insights of some of Nature's ways one does gain.