Francis Duggan Poems

The old bloke there who wears the bowler hat
He watched as Don Bradman swung his cricket bat
In Melbourne Cricket Grounds some sixty years ago
He watched as the Don put on a super show,
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In their lifetimes their mark they may have made
But in time the greatest names from history fade
The long dead heroes we may well recall
But time is the one who does take care of all
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Nations with the death penalty in place have nothing to feel proud of
Such Governements sadly lacking in humanity
Any Government that condone such a practice are not human rights friendly
No matter who they are it would seem to me.
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Lets hear it for the World's nurses the unsung heroines of our time
Though not amongst the highly paid people and not honoured in song and rhyme
They devote themselves to ill and dying people and are known to be caring and kind
Humanity would be worse off without them and their equals would be hard to find,
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It is a warm day for September around the 25 degrees
The nesting birds chirping and singing with only a very faint breeze
The Goddess of Spring in her glory the pittosporums in their grey flowers
The paddocks looking lush and greener as a result of the early Spring showers
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So long I've been out of Duhallow I'd feel a stranger there today
Where Araglen through the fields of Cullen to the Blackwater babbles it's way
In this far Southern Land I grow older the years have left me looking gray
And without me the white blossoms will bloom on the hawthron trees of the May
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Al Gore a World Champion environmentalist the one who should have been President of the U S of A
But nowadays that is an old story such is life as some are known to say
An Inconvenient Truth his film on climate change has brought an awareness Worldwide
Of human made pollution of the environment it does seem time is not on our side
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Her old Hometown she says she will never more see
And she'll never more see the shores of Italy
A seventy year old grandmother her hair silver gray
With her deceased husband she says she will lay.
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Like we all will one day he ran out of time
Farewell to Marcel Marceau the king of mime
The marvellous Frenchman in a class of his own
He and Charlie Chaplin the greatest mime men ever known,
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With ask not what you can do for your Country I for one do not agree
For those who gain most out of the Country the most successful or so 'twould seem to me
And how can you help your Country if financially from it you do gain
Why so many ask what can you do for your Country is beyond me to explain,
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