Within the heart of the city there’s a garden full of life
Hidden away but yet in plain sight
Green foliage covered in flowers: pink, white and blue
Camellias and Statice in full bloom.
The people laugh and the birds sing, like an eternal spring
Small green ferns cover the ground
Red Cordyline break through the green karkalla
A sanctuary busting with flora
Purple irises and yellow daffodils cover the endless landscape.
An escape from reality and an escape from life.
Their lies on the West Coast of Scotland
A Kingdom that's rarely been seen
Where it's beauty radiates through ones eyes
Even closed you can only but dream
Natures gems thrive through seasonal change
Blessing colonies of sea faring birds
To witness the call of it's wilds
So many voices just have to be heard
Cordyline australis grace her lands
They are palm trees to you and me
A native from a land down under
Not Australia, New Zealand is where they be
This area where this Kingdom lies
With it's rugged and beautiful scenes
Freshwater lochs lure many anglers
To catch the fish of their dreams
Many visiting tourists, some in family trace
To discover where their ancestors be
Capturing snaps of their homelands, a past way of life
Filling the blanks of their family tree
Sporadic green forests of pine
With ferns and heathers, carpet the lands
Rugged juts off an earth from the past
Spewed through her juvenile glands
And this land through your eyes that you see
Is the Kingdom that's rarely seen
If you live here we call it Scourie
So beautiful in natures scheme
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