Dino And Marie Poem by Francis Duggan

Dino and Marie have shed their last tears for Rome
Nowadays they feel happy to call Australia home
In their early twenties in nineteen seventy three
They came to Australia adventurous, young and carefree
To Dino she remains the great love of his life
A role model to their family and to him a great wife
Twelve times great grandparents their direct descendants in numbers are growing
Though on Dino and Marie the years are now showing
In Rome from the Moyne Shire in distance far away
Dino and Marie first saw light of day
Though they speak English well their accents they retain
The only part of Italy that in them does remain
That nostalgia does lose out to time is not based on a lie
In the Moyne Shire they will live until the day they will die.