Francis Duggan Poems

Do unto others as you would like them do unto you
A very old saying that remains ever true
To hurt somebody's feelings deliberately is not a nice thing
Far better the praises of that person to sing
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They only live on now in my memory
The mentors of my boyhood in the flesh that I'll never more see
In cemeteries far north from here far away
In Mother Earth's bosom they forever lay.
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Compared to most my worries do seem small
And real hardship in my life I don't have to recall
Nor I can't say I've known much of ache or pain
In fact I don't have any reason to complain
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The creek from the high country babbles on down
for to join the big river by the old bush town
On it's long winding journey south-wards to the sea
So old who would even know how old it would be.
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They do write in English but never in rhyme
Those referred to by the literary critics as the poets of our time
Of language they seem to have a great command
Though their poems I do struggle for to understand.
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The soughing of the wind in the trees in the rain
And the gurgling of water in the storm-water drain
And the raindrops that race on down the window pane
Reminds me of my old home by the hill I am back there again.
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The thing known as rhyme is not hard for to write
And easy to memorize and to recite
For as long as the rhythm and metre are right
A good rhyme poem can be a source of delight
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The highways and the byways of Australia he has travelled up and down
Frank's the manager of Alex's Wok in famed old Koroit Town
He has bought himself a touring bus despite the disapproval of his Sue
To the way he feels and the way he is he is only feeling true
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In distance they do seem a long way from me
And it does seem that them I will never more see
Those old fields a mile to two from Millstreet Town
That I used to love when my hair was dark brown.
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Not much about most things I can claim to know
But I'm certain that money on trees does not grow
And though in the Human World money is the most important thing
Of love lost and found singers prefer to sing
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