Francis Duggan Farewell Poems

I love the simple word hello
It always rings a joyful bell
But one of the saddest words i know
Is the oft times tearful word farewell.
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The peals of the funeral bell echo to the calm sky
For someone today 'tis a final goodbye
And on some future date whenever that be
A similar bell will be ringing for me.
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Farewell to the travelling people their fame it was known far and wide
Their horse drawn vans are no longer to be seen on the by roads of the green countryside
Their descendants live a different sort of a lifestyle with the passing of the decades few things stay the same
And so it is for the children of the wanderlust people who too are often called out of name.
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Though far left of her ways of thinking and for her i never would vote
In the history of Australian Politics she is one well worthy of note
As Australia's first woman Prime Minister she achieved something great
The woman born in Barry in far away Wales her own history did create
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If I should die tomorrow at my farewell don't pray
Or good things or bad things of me do not say
I've had a good life and I've lived my good years
And for others save your sorrow your grief and your tears.
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One in his mid twenties strong, fit, healthy and well
But today he did not hear the tolling of his farewell bell
One who leaves a baby daughter and a grieving wife
A driving mistake it did cost him his life
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A sad enough sound is the funeral bell
For some male or female a final farewell
Tolling in the belfry of the church nearby
It's slow peals echoing in the calm morning sky
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Farewell to the poets and poetesses of Nature
Their beautiful rhymes are a gift of the heart
In literature they will always be remembered
For their promotion of Nature in which they played a huge part.
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To hear it's slow tolling to it one may not be near
But the farewell bell for you is the bell you don't hear
The ears of the deceased are closed to all sound
Life's journey does end in a hole in the ground
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Farewell to where friends are so easily made
To the bright and sunny City of old Adelaide
To where many do greet you with a happy smile
I will be returning though not for awhile
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Farewell to the hero he has played his last game
Though the club without him may not be the same
His best days as a footballer one can say had been gone
But in the minds of the fans his fame will live on
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No pets allowed where I do live at today
So my black ageing persian cat Shadow I had to give away
She now is a mouser for Alex, Alexander and Sue
And she is a good mouser for to give her fair due.
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Down her lovely face the tears roll from her eyes
Quite emotional for her the last goodbyes
Tomorrow from home she will be far away
The farewell words are always hard to say
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The Winter morning air in it did have a cold chill
A few hours before a gray dawn did break above Clara Hill
A bang on a doorway Kamar the cry rang out
You are coming with us the emigration officials did shout
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Farewell to the great Humphrey Kelleher though his was not a lengthy life span
In his prime in the sixties and seventies he was a mighty man
Full back for the Millstreet and Cork Gaelic football teams fearless in the field of play
But a kind and generous man at heart he surely had his day.
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If I should farewell old Wonthaggi I'll miss people that I know there
I'll miss Georgie Waters and Stella Hitchins good people like them are quite rare
And Jessica Harrison and Julie Tyrell and Jack Iversen the unsung hero of old Loch Street
One who would go out of his way for to help you people like him one always don't meet.
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Farewell to the young women I used to know
When I was a younger man decades ago
Some of them are ageing grandmothers today
And some of them childless and single did stay.
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The love that I feel for you with words I cannot say
But nothing lasts forever or so 'twould seem that way
You left me without warning and in retrospect I see
That I was rather naive to think that you loved me.
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Heather wrapped a blanket around her in her final resting bed
And Laz and I we shovelled earth upon her beside the garden shed
And in her old home in Brown Street her bones at rest now lay
The old brown canine Woofy her lot will be ours one day.
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Cliff Fraser leaves south Gippsland with Ann his devoted wife
He was born and raised his children there and lived there for most of his life
For to help other people he goes out of his way
He has worked for worthy causes and never asked for pay.
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Farewell to all of my old friends who live far north of here
And farewell to the old Townland and the places I love dear
And to the woods and old fields where I discovered rhyme
But the boys I went to school with now have offsprings in their prime.
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Farewell to High Tree Travel Towers I hate these last goodbyes
For the very thought of leaving bring teardrops to my eyes
And though with some of my ex work mates I did not see eye to eye
We did not have much common ground still they are good as I.
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Farewell my noble rebel so cold and deep the grave
But you were not afraid of death and you were always brave
You were my favourite brother the one I loved the best
The rebel heart from Latvia has gone to peaceful rest.
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For me it was love at first sight with Sherbrooke right from the very start I loved the place
But now I feel the time is ripe to move on where mine would not be a familiar face
For eleven years I've lived near the Town of Belgrave and on looking back how quick those years have gone
And I am getting older over fifty and I won't be sorry to be moving on.
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At the veterinary clinic by the vet she was put down
It was her last day in Wonthaggi Town
Old Jedder had been getting on in years
Still saying farewell it reduced me to tears.
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You feel so happy when you meet an old friend
You clasp their hand and hug them in your joy
But I have felt such sadness in each parting
It pains me so to have to say goodbye.
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The morning cool and scarce a puff of breeze
And pale eyed ravens cawing on the sunlit trees
And the last petal has gone from the rose
And Autumn near and Summer at a close.
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