Francis Duggan Poems

Oh bury me there in the field by the hill
Quite close to the banks of the babbling rill
That from the high country hurries on down
To join the big river that flows by the Town.
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One cannot bring back the past and what is gone is gone
And today leads to tomorrow and life will go on
And though young Johnny pines for a love that once used to be
For a lovelorn one there's not much sympathy.
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The golden wattle tree resplendent in the Winter sunshine cloaked in golden blooms to the very ground
The beauty it displays from mid to late Winter will fade to decay when the Spring comes around,
The birds nesting and singing the Spring she is coming I sense her drawing nearer with each passing day
The beauty of Nature it lives on forever young flowers come to bloom as the old flowers decay
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To this very ancient Country the Seasons come and go
And the more we learn of Nature of Nature the less we seem to know
The creek from the high paddock down through the woodland flow
On it's way to meet the big stream that to a river grow.
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Doesn't life seem hard for many and doesn't life seem so unfair
And thousands must grow poorer for every new millionaire
Every day due to links with poverty fifty thousand people die
And those who say we all are equal the reality deny
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Thousands of miles from this Southern Land to that far Northern Shore
And even further from those high fields of green old Claramore
At the foot of Clara mountain that forever has looked down
On the countryside now known as Duhallow that borders Millstreet Town.
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A white cross with five stars in a background of navy blue
Men fought under it in eighteen fifty two
In Ballarat Town at the Eureka Stockade
Some miners died for workers rights there and history was made.
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'Tis such a dry country around Castlemaine
And there even in Winter it seldom does rain
In the heat of the Summer the sun glows in the sky
And the paddocks are brown and the drains are bone dry.
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Stay brave young David Hicks and hold your head high you have no reason to feel loss of pride
The only case that can be brought against you is that you fought with the defeated side
No murder charges to be brought against you or any crimes against humanity
Some try to taint you as an unworthy person but with them I for one cannot agree.
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Pollution and nuclear poisoning has become Worldwide
And will there be a Worldwide famine when the Earth we have destroyed?
When the last root crop has failed and the last animal has died money we cannot eat
There will be a Worldwide famine without milk and bread and meat.
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