Francis Duggan Poems

You may be found to be wanting when put to the test
But why worry about it you did try your best
To the race for the top spot by one better than you beat
But what matter most you were gracious in defeat
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You may be found to be wanting when put to the test
But why worry about it you did try your best
To the race for the top spot by one better than you beat
But what matter most you were gracious in defeat
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To me it does seem quite a fair thing to say
That kind and compassionate people are born this way
Though some with such thinking may well disagree
At least anyhow that's how it seems to me
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With most of the people there that i would meet
Today i would be a stranger in Claraghatlea and the Town of Millstreet
A stranger to many in Inchaleigh and Annagloor
Absence from home in many ways has left me feeling more poor
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With most of the people there that i would meet
Today i would be a stranger in Claraghatlea and the Town of Millstreet
A stranger to many in Inchaleigh and Annagloor
Absence from home in many ways has left me feeling more poor
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Today it is warm some thirty eight degrees
And warmth in the sunshine and warmth in the breeze
The calendar Autumn just five sleeps away
For so late in summer a very warm day
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Since any act of kindness is never too small
Kindness shown to me by others with joy i recall
Though not wealthy i feel lucky in every other way
Since kind hearted people i meet every day
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Ruth Pitter from Ilford a laureate of rhyme
Her verses live on through the Seasons of time
Though her poems are not quite as popular as they ought to be
As a poet she was not what you would call ordinary
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For any woman or for any man
A century of years is quite a long life span
It is way above the human life average of three score and ten
And women by a few years known to outlive men
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One would swear butter would not melt in his mouth
But the secret he hid from the world it is out
That he often went home from the pub and knocked his wife about
By the court found guilty of assault beyond reasonable doubt
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