Francis Duggan Poems

The mystery of legend around her has grown
The one never seen and to none she is known
She lives on Mt Kolor aloof and alone
The Goddess referred to as the Goddess of Stone
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Tomorrow may be better you hear some people say
But tomorrow will come in it's own good time we must live for today
And tomorrow for some will not dawn that's life one must suppose
We are as fragile it would seem as the petals of the rose,
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Only the best horse, colt, gelding, mare or filly ever wins the Cox Plate
And only the winner they will celebrate
First place by a nose is as good as a mile
The connections of the winner and the winning punters can laugh, cheer and smile
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Though to the International Olympic Council she gave her Olympic medals back
I feel she should have kept them since she won them on the track
I am not a sin free person so I will not cast verbal stones
And I will not try to add taint to the tainted Marion Jones
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I stand by my friend since my friend stands by me
When others criticize me with them she does not agree
She will not allow others for to put me down
I love her as a friend the best in the town
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In Knocknapogue and Millstreet never more to be seen
But she will be missed by all who knew her Mary Dineen
A good mother to her children and to Paddy a good wife
And a very good person who lived a good life.
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A stroll along old memory lane is a thing I do enjoy
And I can hear the songbirds sing in the groves of Lisnaboy
And white butterflies are flitting midst the wildflowers of July
And above the rushy meadow the lark carolling in the sky
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You are never too old for to learn so they say
And from life we do learn something new every day
You may be in your nineties showing your years in gray
And you have not stopped learning if your memory's okay
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People without worries to say the least rare
As many in their lives have some cross to bear
Money cannot buy happiness ask the millionaire
Many of the financially well off too are burdened by care
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The weather cold and overcast in the middle of July
And cold jack frost blows with his chilly breath across the Winter sky
And in Kyneton, Trentham and Daylesford they have had a fall of snow
And the temperatures at zero and the weather glass is low
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