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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560734" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lady Luck Has Been So Kind To Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some like to think that your past is gone forever<br>But your memories good or bad won't fade away<br>And green of Spring to the young eyes look greener<br>And our sense of wonderment grow less with every day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And memories of a childhood close to Nature<br>Despite time's passage with me still remain<br>I hear the dunnock chirping on the hedgerow<br>And the skylark piping o'er the hill again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grew up west of Millstreet in Duhallow<br>And Summer days the happiest days of all<br>Free of the classroom and it's many restrictions<br>Such happy memories one tend to recall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often roamed by Nature's streams and rivers<br>And I grew to love the dipper's scratchy song<br>And I only feel now I might be a stranger<br>In Claraghatlea North where I once belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could have been born to a ghetto mother<br>An Urban child condemned to poverty<br>Away from Mother Nature's joys and beauty<br>But lady luck has been so kind to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Male robin with the reddish breast is singing<br>In leafy grove just out of Millstreet Town<br>And greenfinch on a bay tree softly piping<br>In Quiet Mountleader as the sun goes down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The country lad will always learn from Nature<br>The sparrows nest an untidy ball of hay<br>But they always line it with the softest feathers<br>And in Spring you hear their nestlings chirp all day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The happy childhood memories will stay young forever<br>Though our sense of wonder ebbs as we grow old<br>And it's true each person to tell has a story<br>Though many stories must remain untold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my untold story is of my childhood close to Nature<br>A country boy is never ever poor<br>And I retain the memories of Spring mornings<br>When thrush and blackbird piped in Annagloor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cows from Wintering indoors out on pasture<br>And Duhallow flushed with wildflowers looking green<br>And I feel happy for my childhood memories<br>And happy for the beauty I have seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moorhen chirp in tall reeds by the river<br>To warn her chicks when she sense danger near<br>And her dark and tiny offsprings swim to cover<br>And their cheepings I fancy I still can hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The horned sheep are high on Clara Mountain<br>The old man say a few fine days ahead<br>When sheep are grazing on or near the summit<br>The weather on the mend it has been said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By circumstance of birth I have been lucky<br>And from childhood happy memories I retain<br>And I hear the dipper singing in the river<br>And the skylark piping o'er the hill again.</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>
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But your memories good or bad won't fade away
And green of Spring to the young eyes look greener
And our sense of wonderment grow less with every day.

And memories of a childhood close to Nature
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