Francis Duggan Poems

The giver and taker of life than her there's none as great
The writers and the artists in their works her do celebrate
Unlike her every life form not for her mortality
The mother of creation far older than history
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This feeling of nostalgia beyond me to explain
In fancy i hear the robin singing in the drizzling rain
When Spring is in the leafy grove and the fields are decked with flowers
And the countryside lush and quite green after recent April showers
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I am not an asset to Country or to any bank
But for my lack of money i have myself to thank
One can say as success goes i have drawn a blank
Which keeps me at the bottom of the social rank
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The silver bill magpie pipes on a gum tree
Where old Hopkins River crawls down to the sea
Near the end of it's journey from it's source far away
It ever creeps onward by night and by day
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A good rhyming poem can be sung as a song
That when put to music makes for a good sing along
The World's great songs were born of poems that rhyme
The musical words do stand the test of time
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With shoulder length wavy hair and eyes of brown
She lives quite a way from her rural Hometown
Down to earth one who does not yearn for renown
Such a beautiful person Rose of Camperdown
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With shoulder length wavy hair and eyes of brown
She lives quite a way from her rural Hometown
Down to earth one who does not yearn for renown
Such a beautiful person Rose of Camperdown
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With shoulder length wavy hair and eyes of brown
She lives quite a way from her rural Hometown
Down to earth one who does not yearn for renown
Such a beautiful person Rose of Camperdown
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Our different likes and dislikes make us more interesting would you not agree
What is great to you may not be so to me
Or vice versa it would seem fair to say
That no two look at life in quite the same way
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Of the feelings of others one ought to feel aware
Sometimes before speaking some thought you might spare
On the consequences of what you are about to say
There are many occasions on which prudence does pay
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