<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541931" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Brief Autobiography</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ran a few road races in the colours of Millstreet<br>But I was never much of an athlete<br>One could say I just took part in the race<br>And I always finished well out of a place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had a go at Soccer and Gaelic football<br>But at those I wasn't any good at all<br>Just one more hack who never made the grade<br>Good players like poets are born they cannot be made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now I am one who pens doggerel<br>Though of any literary success sadly I cannot tell<br>And though years ago I did daydream of fame<br>In the literary World just one more unknown name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though success I cannot claim to know<br>At least at some things I did have a go<br>'Tis not true that we can be what we choose<br>For one to win so many have to lose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A brief Autobiography in slip-shod rhyme<br>Of one three decades beyond his physical prime<br>and very close now to his use by date<br>And without any success to celebrate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541931" data-title="A Brief Autobiography de Francis Duggan" data-description="I ran a few road races in the colours of Millstreet But I was never much of an athlete One could say I just took part in the race And I always finished well out of a place. I had a go at Soccer and Gaelic football But at those I wasn't any good a..."></div> </div> </div>

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