Francis Duggan English Poems

David may never more see an English Spring
And in the grove near his old home hear a male robin sing
When the hawthorns are cloaked in their white blossoms of May
The good memories of what was are with him today
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With ten great grandchildren old Jim balding and gray
Says i don't care much where my last remains will lay
In my early eighties i have known of a better day
The one with the scythe of death will soon come reaping my way
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She still has her English accent the one known as English Jan
And she never was a mother nor a wife to any man
She ages without dyes or makeups her hair is silver gray
But do not say about her she has known a better day.
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The invaders had bigger army and better guns
And Irish mothers left to weep for murdered sons
I like the English people as a race
But what some of their ancestors did in Ireland a disgrace.
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