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In the blue sky a few woolly looking clouds of gray
So good to be living on such a nice day
In the sunlit park to where i'm standing near
The song of the magpie lark pleasant to hear
On this the first day of March the first day of the Southern Calendar Fall
In near to perfect weather with little wind at all
Today a pleasant high of some twenty degrees
Brown butterflies flying around sunlit flowering trees
The flute of the magpie melodious and...

Francis Duggan

I do live far south of Hibernia's Shore
And even further in distance from the roadway from Millstreet that leads to Rathmore
But in my flights of fancy distance disappear
And what is far in mileage to my thoughts are near

The dipper does sing where the river rapids flow
And i can hear the cawings of daw, rook and gray crow
Far north of here my love for Nature did grow
Though little of her ways i can claim to know

Any of the...

Francis Duggan

Her hair is as dark as the wing of a crow
The girl from the place where the sugar cane grow
With a beautiful smile and lovely eyes of brown
She is a rare gift to the southern town
But in South Western Victoria she will not stay
She yearns for the coastal lands of Byron Bay
For her old Hometown homesick in her homeland
Nostalgia for place not hard to understand
That the lust for wander may be strong in some people this well may be so
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Francis Duggan

He is from the home of the dark pale eyed crow
Where old River Murray through bare brown paddocks flow
A flat landscape where only rough grass tussocks grow
As near to the Pacific it crawls on deep silent and slow

It has been awhile since he last saw Tailem Bend
An old Town where he did have many a friend
But going back the years that now seems long ago
In time he does reckon three decades or so

In Tailem Bend he feels he'd...

Francis Duggan

A few months ago the paddocks were bare and brown
In the flat countryside bordering Castlemaine Town
That was before the onset of the heavy rain
That overflowed every creek and every drain
And in the once bare paddocks young grass sprouted again
And Nature's greenery returned to Castlemaine
The last time i was here the landscape looked bare and brown
In and surrounding old Castlemaine Town
Amazing changes that a few months can bring
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Francis Duggan