Francis Duggan Poems

You may be one who has achieved financial success
And so many look up to you and many you impress
But you are not feeling well health-wise of late
You are not the healthiest one in the State
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The good years behind me old age is ahead
And too much about life I have written of and said
Though a rhymer by Nature my best years long gone
I must be addictive for to keep on rhyming on
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The praises of life everybody should sing
It is our greatest gift and does not owe us a thing
We owe it since without it we would not exist
Yet from praising it most of us seem to resist
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The praises of life everybody should sing
It is our greatest gift and does not owe us a thing
We owe it since without it we would not exist
Yet from praising it most of us seem to resist
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Though some I have known I would rather forget
A really bad person I have never met
And so many good people I meet every day
In humanity far more good than bad only true to say
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Above Caherbarnagh a lark sings today
A musical speck in the sunny sky of blue and gray
A little brown songster of human kind shy
Born on the mountain that to sing has to fly
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No Need for you to tell us we already knew
That millionaire writers are of the few
So many who aspire to be wealthy and famous in the wordsmith trade
Into obscurity quickly did fade
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Wisdom comes with age as has often been told
But few does grow wiser as they grow old
Wisdom with age does not come as a guarantee
This Is how it is and it always will be
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Though you were not the winner you gave of your best
And you went down with honour on your greatest test
To lose on the day was something you did not choose
But for one for to win another has to lose
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From human dwellings never far away
House sparrows are birds one does see every day
In city and town parks and urban and suburban street
In their ways quite cheeky they are not shy or discreet
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