Old Millstreet Town Where I Attended School Poem by Francis Duggan

Though i was born and raised near there and lived there for many years
For there i have shed my last nostalgic tears
Old Millstreet Town where i attended school
Far north of this countryside between Koroit and Warrnambool
Far south of there my hair has turned to gray
And i have known of a far better day
And though Millstreet Town i never more may see
Good memories of what was are today with me
In Claraghatlea my very first home place
Where mine to many was a well known face
To most i would be a stranger today
Absence makes one a stranger as the wise one say
And today i would feel a stranger in old Millstreet Town
Near where i lived when my hair was dark brown.