The Old Hopkins River Is So Old In Time Poem by Francis Duggan

It has inspired artists and the makers of story, song and rhyme
The old Hopkins River is so old in time
Towards the Pacific Ocean near Warrnambool it crawls deep and slow
How old is the Hopkins would anyone know?
Long before the first Europeans to Warrnambool came
The local Indigenous tribes for the river did have their own name
Since then many Seasons have come and have gone
But the old waterways to the ocean flows on
Where it has flowed forever and will forever more
On it's unending journey to the Pacific shore
It's existence the millions of centuries does span
It has flowed long before the age of the dinosaurs and the birth of the first woman and man
To the place known as the Blue Hole by night and by day
From it source in the country by the hills far away.