On Julia Murphy's One Hundred Birthday

Two World wars have been fought since Julia Murphy of Gortavehy life's journey began A century of living in time is quite a long span Images of her on the Millstreet Website by Sean Radley with her friends and her son Donie quite amazing to see And he in his late sixties of an age quite similar to me Julia was in her early fifties when i was a teenage boy Such a happy, healthy and long lived life so few known to enjoy Sean Radley is right when he wrote of her one hundred years young The praises of Julia Murphy deserve to be sung It is a known fact and fact does not lie That us humans like all other life forms are born to die Perhaps the gift of life from all she went to school with by now has long gone But Julia who reads without reading glasses is happily living on It has been many Seasons since she was in her life's prime But Julia is one who keeps smiling in the face of time In her lifetime she has made and did farewell many a friend And it may be awhile yet before her life's journey will end To a small band of Worldwide centenarians she now does belong Julia Murphy at one hundred does seem healthy and strong She has lived through two World Wars since nineteen fourteen And many changes in Gortavehy in her lifetime she has seen.