Francis Duggan Poems

Always generous and kindhearted this song is penned in her honour
All in Coolikerane will mourn the passing of Maurice's widow Nellie O Connor
In Coolikerane she was raised and there she raised her children and she is one we will remember
Her fate one day will be our fate for all of us a last December.
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I've been in love with Nature since I was a young boy
And learning things about her to me a source of joy
Her wonders are so many her secrets are not few
And every day about her we learn something new
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'Tis beyond any human being for to explain
How such a tiny insect could have such a great brain
Such beautiful webs with their silk they create
Though I have yet to hear one say that spiders are great
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Can't say of an afterlife hell or heaven but there is an Earthly heaven and hell
Whilst many are homeless and hungry some for themselves doing well
And some are very wealthy and getting wealthier by the day
And a huge gap between the haves and have nots it has always been this way
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The corellas are squawking just after sundown
In the grayness of twilight in the park of the town
The crickets are singing in the cracks in the garden wall
In their breeding Season from late Summer to early Autumn to daylight from nightfall
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Another door opens when one door does close
That saying in it's own way refer to human life one suppose
More life opportunities for some anyway
Do come with the dawning of every new day
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Late April in the Southern Fall does seem far from the Spring
But in the sunlit Townpark willy wagtail does sing
Australia's black and white fantail brave and cheeky for his size
To see him challenge birds as big as magpies is never a surprise
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When James Clarence Mangan penned 'Dark Rosaleen'
A poem that will live for as long as Ireland's fields are green
Millions of people in Ireland of hunger were dying or were dead
And times never tougher and tough times ahead
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From Casterton in Victoria she lives far away
With hair dyes and hair tints does she hide her gray?
With shoulder length dark hair and lovely eyes of brown
She was a former Rose of Casterton Town.
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It is a vast body of water a wonder of Nature to see
The river that is known as the Hopkins through Warrnambool crawls to the sea
From a very humble beginning into a vast waterway it does grow
As near to the shores of the Pacific at a slow snail's pace it slowly does flow
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