This Land

This Land that has inspired the writers of song, story and rhyme
It was very old even in the dinosaurs time
It was very old when the first people to it came
A vast Land of the south that did not have a name

This is an old Land it is so very old
And it's true story by historians will never be told
It was there before the first human looked on the lamp of day
The age of this Land anyone cannot say

That we abuse this Land that does feed us seems hard to explain
From her assets the greediest do stand to gain
Sad to think that many of us treat her as if she is our foe
Yet our very existence to her we do owe

Those who talk of Land ownership have it all wrong
How can we own the Land when to the Land we belong
Whether we are buried or cremated in some form or way
In death we will return to her one day

The age of this Land anyone does not know
She was there when the river to the ocean began to flow
Us humans to life come and life from us go
But time to the land it is never a foe.