Happy childhood memories the best memories of all <br />And my younger years in Millstreet I will always recall <br />On evenings in Summer up to the mid Fall <br />In the Townpark at the West End we played gaelic football <br />My friends of my youth where might they be today <br />Like me have the years left them balder and gray <br />Though some of them in the home Parish did stay <br />In life one might say we just went our own way <br />Since those days so many years have come and gone <br />And time does not wait it just ticks on and on <br />Many of the friends of my youth I may not see again <br />Though good memories of them with me does remain <br />And in fancy I chase the football up and down <br />With my happy young friends in the Park of the Town.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/happy-childhood-memories/
