<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582515" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Happened To His Village</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was born just a short distance from Adelaide<br>And he could see the sea from his back door<br>And in his young days there were not many houses<br>But the years have brought great change to Semaphore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His sea side Village has grown to a coastal suburb<br>And his old Homeplace has undergone great change<br>Where once were trees and paddocks now there's houses<br>A stranger to your old Homeplace seems strange.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What happened to the Village of his childhood<br>The paddock where he played in years ago<br>He only can refer now to his memories<br>Of peaceful place the Homeplace he once did know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cottage of his childhood gone forever<br>A doctor's surgery where once it stood<br>And not one know him he is now a stranger<br>In Semaphore the place of his boyhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But of the past he still has good old memories<br>Of his old Village how it used to be<br>And from the cottage by the wide brown paddock<br>Six hundred yards off he could see the sea.</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=582515" data-title="What Happened To His Village de Francis Duggan" data-description="He was born just a short distance from Adelaide And he could see the sea from his back door And in his young days there were not many houses But the years have brought great change to Semaphore. His sea side Village has grown to a coastal suburb ..."></div> </div> </div>

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