Francis Duggan Poems

On the slopes of the hill as dawn's lamp lights the sky
The little brown lark from the bracken does fly
A thing of great beauty so pleasant to hear
His distinctive carolling melodious and clear
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Out there in the paddock I hear the black bull
He never stops bellowing when the moon is full
I wonder does the moon effect him in some strange way
For I've never heard him bellow in the light of the day
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He doesn't play sports drink alcohol or take dope and you might say he doesn't fit in
And he doesn't lust after young women and he's not seen as a man amongst men
He works hard to provide for his family and he leads a good and a clean life
And he is a nice man to talk to and he is faithful to his wife.
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She hear the angels piping in the breeze
And she see the fairies dancing on the trees
And she run to her mum to tell her what she's seen
But mum of course does not believe Maureen.
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His friends influence his ideas on manhood you are allowed to laugh but not to weep
And over the love of a female you are not supposed to lose sleep
In the pub with his mates Don and Tony and Danny and Peter and Stan
Their conversation leads to one subject on what is the mark of a man? .
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Legend has it that the Goddess Anu's breasts became the 'Paps of Shrone'
And that through the centuries to peaks they've grown
Till they stood proudly on the higher ground
And grew to be the tallest peaks around.
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At Corranderk a patch of sacred ground
With miles of open country all around
And grass from summer sun bleached gray and brown
Near Healesville fifty k's from Melbourne Town.
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There's one thing we should know about terrorism it will not be beaten by force
But we can lessen the threat of it by treating it at it's source
Like in our attitude to those different to us since the sort of a Human World we live in we help to create
Since racism and cultural divisions only does give rise to hate
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In the once great river pollution is rife
Nowadays it does not support much aquatic life
In a polluted river fresh water fish rare
Pollution can cause extinction of that much we are aware
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Old Rupert the border collie his muzzle is gray
And clearly he has known a far better day
His kind master Gen of him does take good care
As she says the Rupert Dogs of this World are rare
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