I Fell In Love

I fell in love with a lady who's as firm as she's soft as she's strong There's times when she's quite a hard mistress but with body and soul I belong She grants me my hopes and desires She answers my dreams and my prayers She asks that I treat her with kindness All she wants is just someone that cares There's times when she burns like a furnace and times when she's cold like the moon Her voice is the birds always singing the sweetest of nature's sweet tunes Her heart is as big as the outback her spirit as strong as the trees Her name whispers slowly and softly on the gentlest of Summer's sweet breeze She's young and she's fresh and forgiving but she's older and wiser than time So much more than is here on this paper in this poor poets musing and rhyme For the lady I love is Australia and I offer these words as my praise From the city's great sprawl to the desert I'm hers to the end of my days From my PDF book "Bush Ballads and Bulldust"