The Hamilton Girl Poem by Francis Duggan

She yearns for adventure and wealth and renown
In the bigger World out there distant from Hamilton Town
In Melbourne or Sydney or further from home
Like London or Paris or New York or Rome.

The World is her oyster she is only eighteen
And so much for her to do and so much to be seen
The brightness of youth on her shiny brown hair
She daydreams of life in the big World out there.

Of beauty and youth the singers do sing
And the energy of youth it is such a great thing
The bigger World out there stretches far and wide
And when you are young you've got time on your side.

In Hamilton Town her's is a well known face
And she will be sadly missed from her home place
Quite close to her twenties a young budding rose
And beauty will go with her to where-ever she goes.

In the Hamilton park the nesting birds chirp and sing
And there is great warmth in the lamp of the Spring
But one pretty young woman she daydreams of elsewhere
Of her marvellous adventures in the big World out there.