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A Smell of Decency.(Poem)

Quadrant

| July 01, 2002 | Page, Geoff | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
A SMELL OF DECENCY 
 
   Page 2 is Sport and Sportsmen 
   boxing, soccer, turf and polo, 
   cricket, rugby, Aussie rules, 
 
   scratchings from the Caulfield Cup. 
   The match was very interesting, 
   it says, between Duntroon and Hall. 
 
   Saturdays are all good sense, 
   a smell of decency, team spirit, 
   plates of mud thrown up by ponies 
 
   galloping in rushes, 
   ...
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