The Merri

In the flat lands near Warrnambool dark, deep and slow
The old Merri River does silently flow
On it's way to Middle Island to the Pacific shore
Where it has flowed forever and will forever more
The Merri was old when the first people to the coastal countryside now known as south west victoria came
A timeless waterway without a name
Perhaps it has been flowing since time began
Thousands of centuries before the birth of the first woman and  man
My wonderment of Nature's ways only does grow
How it came by it's name of the Merri is something i do not know
In full flood it is quite a sight to behold
And in the age of the dinosaurs it was very old
It has inspired the writers of story and rhyme
The old Merri that has flowed through the centuries of time.