How Old Is This Country Poem by Francis Duggan

How old is this Country would anyone know
This old coastal country where Merri waters flow
In and out of Lake Pertobe it slowly winds it's way
And on to the Pacific at Lady Bay
It was an old country when the first people came
And for it they did have a different name
That is going back sixty thousand years or even more
To where the Merri creeps on to the southern shore
An old land that has inspired story and rhyme
This was an old country even in the Dreamtime
In Summer the Country's first people had their corroborees
Near the banks of the Merri in the shade of the trees
A home to wallaby and pale eyed crow
How old is this Country would anyone know?