Francis Duggan Poems

A diabetic in her early sixties and she is one you could not help but admire
She raised nine children five of them adopted and her story is a story to inspire
And she is what you'd call an unsung heroine for her there's
never been an easy day
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The fairest one in Berwick when she was in her prime
But that was fifteen years ago and that's going back in time
She may be only forty but she has put on weight
And the one who once had many suitors goes un-noticed of late.
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In Dan Connell's shop we bought ice creams and lollies
And lemonade and buns and chocolate treats
And black jacks and jobstoppers for a penny
A shilling then would buy you bags of sweets.
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When you and I must part forever more
Will those who survive us speak of us and say
They have gone to where none have returned from before
And their souls far distant from where now they lay.
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The hobby golfer goes on a golfing week end and with his mates the eighteen holes he play
And the football fan he goes to watch his team play and if they win it helps to make his day
And the horse lover rides upon her pony along the bush track
fringed by rough grass overgrown
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From the Victorian border through the Coorong a country in decay
And the salt pans of South Australia are growing by the day
You won't find many animals where only saltbush grow
And in the streams and rivers salt off the paddocks flow.
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I left Duhallow but Duhallow followed
And the Boggeragh hills are never far away
In Finnow pools the trout for flies are jumping
And I see the cross on Clara every day.
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We hear a lot of late about Bill Clinton
Of his infedilities to Hilary his wife
And though scandals of the famous sell newspapers
There are far more important things in life.
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Michael Cleary was a man from Murphy's Terrace
The eldest one of a big family
The beloved son of Matt and Mrs Cleary
But he died in his prime and tragically.
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The darkening rain clouds gather across the morning sky
And skylark leaves the bracken and upwards as he fly
Soaring he keeps singing till in clouds he disappear
The bird is now invisible but his music I can hear.
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