Francis Duggan Poems

If you look for evil good you cannot see
For your eyes only tell you what they want you in others to see
Of good and bad races you keep telling me
But your opinions are different to mine we see things differently.
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The music of O Carolan I have loved for many years
So sad and yet so beautiful it reduces one to tears
The poor blind harper of the County Meath is one many tend to under-rate
As a composer of beautiful music he is one we ought to celebrate
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Since the last time I see old Wonthaggi many weeks and months have gone by
Above the scrub by Powlett River the lark sang in the sunny sky
The country side by the old coal Town I do see when I visualize
And on the bracken clad hill of Baxter's land I see the roos box at sunrise
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Though to the one God everyone does not pray
God helps those who help themselves the more cynical say
But in what they do say there is truth to be found
Since in the Human World greed does seem to abound.
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For his age he is full of elan
He is such a lively old man
He laugh and he dance and he sing
To him life is a wonderful thing
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Some religious people do look on as odd
Those who do not believe in the existence of God
They refuse to believe that in an atheist you'll find
A person who can be quite good and kind
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For to be part of the social gathering you try to do your best
But on the subject of the group gathering you can only feign interest
They are not your sort of people but not to be rude you pretend
That you do really like them as people and you want to be their friend
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The race that stops a Nation it was run today
And the Aussie horse racing fans are shouting hooray
For master trainer Bart Cummings a great twelfth Melbourne Cup win
And the greatest ever pay day for the Jockey Blake Shinn
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We've sat listening all the evening to those oft sung melodies
And if you feel like singing mister sing us Songs of Sherbrooke please
Sing us Songs of Sherbrooke mister and let us hear the mountain breeze
Soughing softly in Kallista in those majestic gum trees.
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Don't tell me that all men are equal and that all women are equal to men
Since I can only see inequality in a World of corruption and sin
The poor seem to be getting poorer and far too many in poverty
And the wealthy are getting far wealthier that's how it would appear to me.
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