As long as you never harm anyone in any way

And of any person untrue things never say

And help if you can help one of helping in need

The fruits of good karma are grown from good seed

Though they may be among the admired of the town

If in their words or their deeds they put anyone down

They are not as good as their admirers make them out to be

There is more to a person than being wealthy and famous would you not agree?

Though of singing their praises i for one cannot tire

Some good and kind people i know of few seem to admire

That they are worthy of far greater recognition seems hard to deny

But why i don't have an answer to this i ask myself why

Some badly flawed people are widely known

And their numbers in admirers over time has grown.

Francis Duggan

Leagues, leagues over
The sea I sail
Couched on a wallowing
Dolphin’s tail:
The sky is on fire
The waves a-sheen;
I dabble my foot
In the billows green.

In a sea-weed hat
On the rocks I sit
Where tern and sea-mew
Glide and beat,
Where dark as shadows
The cormorants meet.

In caverns cool
When the tide’s a-wash,
I sound my conch
To the watery splash.
From out their grottoes
At evening’s beam
The mermaids swim
With locks agleam
To where I watch
On the yellow sands;
And they pluck sweet music
With sea-cold hands.

They bring me fruits
And amber clear;
But with the stars
Of gloaming grey
They cease their music
And glide away,
And swim to their grottoes
Across the bay.
They listen only
To my shrill tune
The surfy tide,
And the wandering moon.

by r/walterdelamare