By The Road Near Cobden

Recently a dead wombat by the road near Cobden Must have been brought to there from far away
As there are no records of wombats living in the Moyne Shire today
Perhaps somebody brought it from elsewhere and released it and on to the road it did stray
This is what most old timers who have lived for years near Cobden do say
I know a man who has lived in the Moyne Shire for eighty four years
A lover of Nature and he seemed close to tears
When he said he has not seen a wombat in the Moyne shire since he was in his life's prime
And this is going back many decades in time
Due to ploughing and hunting wombats are extinct in the Moyne Shire for half of a century or so
And going back the Seasons this seems long ago
To survive in Australia the Country's largest burrowing marsupial Is in need of every friend
On the roadways nowadays many of them come to a tragic end
The dead wombat by the road to Cobden must have been brought to there from far away
As there are not any of them in the Moyne Shire of today.