<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511111" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the mouth-filling song of the race that was run by a Boomer.<br>Run in a single burst--only event of its kind--<br>Started by Big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma,<br>Old Man Kangaroo first, Yellow-Dog Dingo behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kangaroo bounded away, his back-legs working like pistons--<br>Bounded from morning till dark, twenty-five feet at a bound.<br>Yellow-Dog Dingo lay like a yellow cloud in the distance--<br>Much too busy to bark. My! but they covered the ground!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody knows where they went, or followed the track that they flew in,<br>For that Continent hadn't been given a name.<br>They ran thirty degrees from Torres Straits to Leeuwin<br>(Look at the Atlas, please then they ran back as they came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S'posing you could trot from Adelaide to the Pacific<br>For an afternoon's run -- half what these gentlemen did--<br>You would feel rather hot, but your legs would develop terrific,<br>Yes, my importunate son, you'd be a Marvellous Kid!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511111" data-title="The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="This is the mouth-filling song of the race that was run by a Boomer. Run in a single burst--only event of its kind-- Started by Big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma, Old Man Kangaroo first, Yellow-Dog Dingo behind. Kangaroo bounded away, his ba..."></div> </div> </div>

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