Francis Duggan Poems

In fancy I can hear the soft lowing of a cow
In a darkening field by white river Finnow
On a Spring evening just after sundown
In the quiet countryside near Millstreet Town
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Some people to power they do desperately cling
To them it happens to be everything
By narcissistic autocrats millions of people have been oppressed
They can be cruel and dangerous the self obsessed
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Far north of this countryside near Warrnambool
In Millstreet Town I went to primary school
Long before time it did become my foe
Going back the Seasons this was long ago
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Long after life's breath from their body has gone
Some famous people their fame will live on
But slowly over time their fame will fade away
Though their names may outlast their bodily decay
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I was born and raised in view of Clara's hill
Within hearing distance of the silver tongued rill
Flowing through Claraghatlea from high Claramore
To the bigger waterways to the Atlantic shore
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The amazing Payne Family of Miners Rest
Paddy Payne snr and his family of jockeys and horse trainers Australia's best
Known horse racing family and famed Worldwide
Beyond the suburb of Ballarat City in Victoria's countryside
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As poetry my rhymes are not quite good enough
To the literary purists a bit slipshod and rough
But I never do say that I am a poet
Or one in any way worthy of any literary note
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Time on old Billy beginning to show
The man from the hill of the dark pale eyed crow
In his early eighties he has lived for many years
But for what was he has shed his last tears
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Time on old Billy beginning to show
The man from the hill of the dark pale eyed crow
In his early eighties he has lived for many years
But for what was he has shed his last tears
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Time on old Billy beginning to show
The man from the hill of the dark pale eyed crow
In his early eighties he has lived for many years
But for what was he has shed his last tears
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