Francis Duggan Poems

I love the sound of good old Irish music it takes me to the mountains far away
And it takes me to the station dance and ceili such things in Ireland doesn't happen today
For Ireland as a Land has gone through changes and nothing ever seems to stay the same
You won't find any Land that's not known changes at least there is not any I could name.
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In the blue sky woolly looking cumulus of gray
The sun it is shining on Maldon today
Few shops open for business on Good Friday in the Mt Alexander Town
On the main street few cars or trucks drive up and down
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Though not lacking in public support
He will have his day in court
And though i can only wish him well
It is human law will judge Cardinal Pell
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Tomorrow will dawn and yesterday has gone
And life in the World as usual goes on
At the stroke of midnight the past will be today
That time does not wait only true for to say
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Most of us humans are tribal why otherwise pretend
And only one who is like minded you wish for as a friend
Though some of those who in thinking are different known to find common ground
Among the like minded strong bonds of friendship are found
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Home to echidna, roo, wallaby and dark pale eyed crow
The flat brown, bare and dry country where old Murray crawls silent, deep and slow
On through Tailem Bend as it nears the Pacifuc shore
Where it has flowed forever and will forever more
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Though of any miracles in my life i do not have of to tell
I often drank of the clear spring water of holy Tubrid Well
But never to do the rounds there for to pray
To Mary Christ's mother in the month of May
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Addicted to narcotics and financially down
The young man who hails from a western town
Three of the last four years of his life he has spent in jail
It does seem in life he is one destined to fail
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How nice for to hear on a sunny April day
In the eucalypt woodland just across the way
The bubbling song of a bird in a territorial display
With sharp hook on bill and in feathers of dark brown and gray
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If some man should say to you
That he doesn't simply give a chew
For riches or immortal fame
Then I would like to know his name? .
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