Francis Duggan Goodbye Poems

Goodbye, good luck and may good fortune be with you and follow you to where-ever to you go
I did not know you well only in passing we nodded as we met and said hello
I do regret I did not get to know you better though in common we had little for to share
We all are different in our ways and thinking a fact of which I am all too aware.
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Goodbye to friends and family is never easy to say
To those you may not see again for many a day
You are bound for a place that is far away
Your mood matches the weather the sky is gloomy gray,
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Goodbye to the old hill of wallaby and roo
And to the familiar call of the weerloo
And farewell to the paddocks so stony and brown
North, south, east and west of the old country town,
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Goodbye to Claraghatlea in view of Claramore
And to every town, city and village i have lived in before
Coming to live in Koroit in Victoria's south west
On our journeys in life for all many a test
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A magazine that by Millstreet and Duhallow migrants was read Worldwide
It is so sad to learn that The Clara News has died
The editor Denis Reardon his last editorial is to write
For future news from the Millstreet Parish refer to the Milltsreet web site
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Goodbye to the fields in view of Clara hill
And goodbye to the babbling old Claraghatlea rill
That through the old rushy fields babbles it's way
Down to the Cails river every night and day
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Goodbye to you dear Megan Gale you have got your fortune made
For being Queen of the Catwalk you have been more than well paid
You retire in your life's prime you won't die in poverty
Still young and very beautiful and set up for life financially,
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On leaving home to those you love tis hard to say goodbye
And you cannot choke back the tears though hard you well may try
An experience known to many and an experience known to me
And the memory of a goodbye is not a pleasant memory,
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Goodbye to the hard working fellow he worked hard in his working life
He now rests in the town graveyard in the grave he shares with his wife
They had their rows, raised seven children but together in peace they now lay
Their grandchildren now have young children and life it goes on as they say.
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Goodbye to this town i am leaving but i will be back here next Spring
For to greet the wildflowers of September and hear the birds whistle and sing
In the parkland, gardens and on the street trees all day long till the sun goes down
Tis goodbye for now but not forever to this beautiful old Country-town.
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Goodbye to the friends that i knew in the past
For few things in life ever do seem to last
In my flights of fancy i see them again
I meet them in my walks back memory lane,
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Soon i may say goodbye to the bare Countryside
To the flat and stony paddocks that stretch far and wide
North, south, east and west of the small town by the old stony hill
The lust for wander leaves me restless as the clear flowing rill
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Goodbye to Mick and Jerry good bye to Joe and Jane
Our time has come for parting we may never meet again
We laughed and we made merry but all good times must end
And thank you for your friendship you were my trusted friends.
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I never did them any harm they never harmed me
And they were people that I so often used to see
Yet we never did become friends just a nod as they walked by
And on my leaving the neighbourhood we never said goodbye.
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Goodbye to Kate and Tommy goodbye to Jean and Joe
And all the people who know me and everyone I know
In the old coastal country I will carry with me
Memories of familiar faces in the Town close to the sea.
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Goodbye to here forever my future is elsewhere
I'm moving further Inland I'll be a stranger there
Here I am not a Local and here I'm not to stay
A smaller Town awaits me five hours down the highway.
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Goodbye Patricia, goodbye to you dear
The Summer is over and Winter is here
The days they are short and the nights they are long
The rain lashes down and the wind is blowing strong.
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Goodbye Peter Reith and good riddance and not many for you will shed tears
You leave Parliament with a huge payout with far more than the price of a few beers
For the Coalition Government you were a headkicker and you won't be that hard to replace
A Federal Election is looming and defeat was staring you in the face.
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Goodbye to cloudy skies and wind and rain
And so nice to see the sun shine out again
Four days of rain and river flowing bank high
And welcome sun you brighten up the sky.
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The yellow tailed black cockatoos called in the darkening skies
And rain was gently falling as we bade our last goodbyes
The bus took us out the dirt road out towards departure pier
Good bye to you French Island we may return next year.
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