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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369376" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Australian Eleven</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have bearded the lion in his den,<br>You have singed the original cricket<br>Upon his own hearth, and beaten his men<br>On a genuine English wicket;<br>And so the Australian kangaroo<br>Has a right good right to be proud of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That you’ve had your even share of the luck<br>We’ll allow, argumenti gratia,<br>But you won the great match by downright pluck,<br>And accordingly Australasia<br>Accords such a welcome to her Eleven<br>As for peaceful triumph never was given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us pray that if ever Fate commands<br>Us to step into the arena,<br>With foils without buttons on, hearts and hands<br>Be forthcoming without subpoena<br>To uphold the name of the kangaroo<br>As the Australian Eleven do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May we have a Massie as bold and quick<br>In our van to dismay the foeman,<br>A leader like Murdoch to strike or stick,<br>And yield, like our Murdoch, to no man;<br>And another Horan to lay about him<br>Like Tommy, however the for may “scout” him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no lack of “Palmers” if in extremis,<br>Or of Boyles to plague the Egyptians,<br>Or Garretts to fly to if pressed the team is;<br>Or of men to take all descriptions<br>Of balls which may come at them, quite as coolly<br>As Blackham, who even out-Pooley’s Pooley.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May we have a Banner-man stern and staunch<br>In stonewalling as little Sydney,<br>And a giant, his thunderbolt to launch<br>O’er the field, just of Bonner’s kidney;<br>And a dauntless Mac, to strike like a man<br>When our men are falling fast in the van;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all-around men such as Giffen and Jones,<br>And a “demon” to reinforce us<br>In case we should be over-matched for once<br>And the foe beginning to course us,<br>To come as Spoff like an angel from heaven<br>To help us to beat the English Eleven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To speak in plain English, we pray for this,<br>That if in the struggles before us<br>The tempest of warfare which ravages<br>The Old World no longer blows o’er us,<br>We may show the same skill and dash and pluck,<br>And if we do this we may laugh at luck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Douglas+Brooke+Wheelton+Sladen">Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen</a><div class=q>
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Upon his own hearth, and beaten his men
On a genuine English wicket;
And so the Australian kangaroo
Has a right good right to be proud of you.

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