Homework W/E 1/1/18 The High Country
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 2:01 pm
I write only of my limited knowledge of the Snowy’s up above Gindabine
It may be different elsewhere
The High Country
Where the granite hills surround you and the snow gums line the slopes,
it’s so easy to appreciate the early settler’s hopes.
They had found their piece of paradise beneath these brooding peaks,
with the roar of raging rivers and the countless snow fed creeks.
So a way of life was born back then that echoes still today,
through the pages of our history – it seems it’s there to stay.
Poets added to its mystique with the sound of drumming hooves
and the exploits of the horsemen with their daring skilful moves.
But the romance is now gone – so are the settlers of those days.
yet some shacks can still be seen, although the stock no longer graze.
They have left the stony hillsides for the valleys far below
and the brumbies just a memory of times lost long ago.
© T.E. Piggott
It may be different elsewhere
The High Country
Where the granite hills surround you and the snow gums line the slopes,
it’s so easy to appreciate the early settler’s hopes.
They had found their piece of paradise beneath these brooding peaks,
with the roar of raging rivers and the countless snow fed creeks.
So a way of life was born back then that echoes still today,
through the pages of our history – it seems it’s there to stay.
Poets added to its mystique with the sound of drumming hooves
and the exploits of the horsemen with their daring skilful moves.
But the romance is now gone – so are the settlers of those days.
yet some shacks can still be seen, although the stock no longer graze.
They have left the stony hillsides for the valleys far below
and the brumbies just a memory of times lost long ago.
© T.E. Piggott