Francis Duggan Poems

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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I come from the place of the silver back crow
Where the Cails and Finnow to the Blackwater flow
Where the badgers at twilight from their setts venture out
In the old fields at night in search of food they roam about
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One would think there would be more to life than Collingwood and A F L Football
But to a well known local the biggest thing of all
That he has happening in his life he swears by Collingwood
When they are going well winning games life with him is all good
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