Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top,
Grasshoppers ate up the whole of our crop.
When the drought breaks the rabbits will come
Hush-a-bye baby, the outlook is glum.

E.R, 'Australian Nursery Rhymes', BULLETIN (5 November 1908

Quoted in "Twinkle, Twinkle, Southern Cross" by Robert Holden. National Library of Australia. 1992.

The drought has now broken in New South Wales! All we need is peace.

Dian
NSW