Francis Duggan Poems

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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The one who gobbles with the turkeys with the eagles cannot soar
To the heights some only dream of and that few have reached before
For the turkeys cannot fly high on the ground they mostly stay
And they never soar to great heights they just gobble all the day.
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His real name was John Kelleher he was known as Jack the Mule
He was a man of his own mind not one a boss could rule
He was in his prime of life when i was a young boy
And he worked hard for his livelihood though hard work he did enjoy.
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Israeli bombs being dropped on Beirut in Lebanon far away
In another needless conflict that seems so sad to say
But mostly 'tis the innocents who in conflicts do die
And two wrongs never make a right is surely not a lie.
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I'm just another tiny grain in the great sands of time
One who will never be a poet just a man of average rhyme
But i love Nature that's my right and I'll love her till i die
And one day as sure as i was born in her bosom i will lie.
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