Murray Dwyer Boys Orphanage 1932-1967
Many of the girls at Monte Pio had brothers who attended Murray Dwyer Boys Orphanage
If you quietly survey this ground
And muse what went before
Do you hear soft footsteps shuffling
On an ageing wooden floor
Can you hear the clear young voices
In the chapel softly singing
Or murmurs of our prayers amidst
The ghostly organ ringing
Do you hear an ancient see-saw
Long since rusted and forlorn
Or a small voice softly crying
In a grey and icy dawn
Does the ache of our aloneness
Still shroud unfeeling walls
Do ghosts of Murray Dwyer boys
Still walk dark hollow halls
Does there hang a phantom presence
And a sadness in the air
Do our ghostly shadows linger
Though we’re long since gone from there
Author: Patrick ‘Rick’ Sullivan – Resident 1963