I'Ve Done My Share Poem by Francis Duggan

I've done my share of scribbling and dabbled in doggerel
And I've drunk the sparkling waters of Tubrid's holy spring well
And I have seen old Clara in his Winter hat of snow
Overlooking the old country-side where Finnnow waters flow
Bank high through the rushy fields in flood waters of brown
Through Inchaleigh and Claraghatlea just out of Millstreet Town
I've done my share of traveling though others have done more
And I now live south very far south of Hibernia's windswept shore
The years now telling on me the years tell on us all
And we've been learning from life since before we learned to crawl
I've learned a bit from living yet from life so much to know
and I've been around for some while seen many Seasons come and go
No secret in longevity but live for as long as you can
I will try to keep on living and die as an old man.