<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dan and Mary Ellen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With fondness I remember my aunt Mary Ellen the woman married to my uncle Dan<br>She was my role model and mentor long before I grew into a man<br>She taught me old songs from her childhood and poems to me she did recite<br>And she gave me valuable insights on Nature before I learned how to read and to write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She and Dan in life did have their crosses their only child a girl in her childhood died<br>Their happiness at the birth of their daughter by the reaper's scythe to them denied<br>But Mary she got on with her life and her cross she bravely did bear<br>And her sense of loss never made her feel bitter and she never said life was unfair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lover of old poems and stories she knew the words of many a song<br>That she used to sing by the turf fire on Winter nights cold, wet, windy and long<br>She recited poems of the bards of Sliabh Luachra old greats from the centuries ago<br>So wise and knowledgeable for one self educated and so much about life she did know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With Dan whom she spent many Seasons in the grave-yard at Cullen she lay<br>I mourned at the news of their passing though from Lisnaboy I live far away<br>They were generous with their wisdom and their knowledge of life they passed on down<br>And at peace their bones now rest in Cullen some seven miles from Millstreet Town.</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=549495" data-title="Dan and Mary Ellen de Francis Duggan" data-description="With fondness I remember my aunt Mary Ellen the woman married to my uncle Dan She was my role model and mentor long before I grew into a man She taught me old songs from her childhood and poems to me she did recite And she gave me valuable insight..."></div> </div> </div>

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