Kathleen The Former Town Beauty Poem by Francis Duggan

The young man and woman of the future the boy and girl of today
And the aged must depart for the young to make way
And death is for all as for you and for I
And the longer we live the sooner we will die
She has turned seventy the ageing Kathleen
She was named the Town beauty when she was nineteen
A divorcee and grandmother her better years gone
And only the will to live keeps her keeping on
In her life's prime she looked lovely and she had her day
But with brown hair dye she now covers her gray
Her great youthful beauty old timers recall
But age is a thing that does come to us all
The years are now showing on the ageing Kathleen
She was named the Town beauty when she was nineteen.