Francis Duggan Poems

Shania the border collie sits by the garden gate
In the evening for her master Jim to come home from work she does patiently wait
And at his arrival she barks in delight
At what to her is always a welcoming sight
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I am of the fields where the rushes in clusters do grow
Home of the badger the rook and the silver backed crow
Where the white river Finnow To the Blackwater winds it's way slow
As on towards Drishane with a soft babble it does flow
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With ask what your can do for your Country many may agree
Though this does sound quite nationalistic to me
A saying that does have it's roots in patriotic pride
Since so many people for their Country fighting in wars have died
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They feel so superior on others they look down
Arrogant people control every town
Many may see them as leaders but self interest in them is strong
And their feeling of superiority they do not see as wrong
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A natural beauty to view that is free
The beauty of Nature is all around me
A beauty to us that is always near
On every Season and every day of the year
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The Winters were cold and windy and wet
And the fields often gray with frost something i remember yet
And cattle in the farmyard sheds often bellowing for silage or hay
In the place i was raised in from here far away
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Life for many is not easy it does seem this way
For those who have some new challenge to face every day
Where some are hungry and homeless and some are financially down
Not many smiling faces on the poor side of the town
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Though you are not famous and wealthy and seen as a financial success
You are one of the town's more honorable people since others you have no wish to impress
You help anyone in need of your help and you live as generous and kind
And for to seek the plaudits of others you will never be that way inclined
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Ross Altmann is Warrnambool's greatest sculptor his sculpting are on display far and wide
He is not a fellow into self promotion though in his work he is one who takes pride
His stone sculpting to say the least amazing and any of his sculpting not exactly the same
A man devoted to his natural talents he has worked hard for to make for himself a name
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The young men of the sixties where are they today
Some of them forever in cemeteries lay
Some of them looking wrinkled and showing time's decay
Some of them grand or great grandparents and some of them single and childless did stay
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