"Farewell To" by Francis Duggan: Farewell to the young women I used to know When I was a younger man decades ago Some of them are ageing grandmothers today And some of them childless and single did stay. Farewell to the first feelings of love I knew Though the one that I loved to another was true She did not know I loved her 'twas better that way Since I've always found words like 'I love you' so hard for to say. Farewell to my childhood friends the girls and the boys We had fun together and we played with our toys We grew up too quickly and got to know care And we found out about life in the big World out there. Farewell to the Town Park where we played football An old memory fading that's nice to recall Still in my flights of fancy the old Town I see Though life in the old Town goes on without me. To the old stream that flowed by my old home a tearful farewell And those old fields that will long outlive my doggerel And on the leafy hedgerows in the prime of Spring The songbirds of Nature did whistle and sing. Farewell to the past since the past is long gone And without me life in the old Townland goes on But fond memories of my boyhood years with me remain And I often go back down memory lane.