<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sporting Acquaintances</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched old squatting Chimpanzee: he traced<br>His painful patterns in the dirt: I saw<br>Red-haired Ourang-utang, whimsical-faced,<br>Chewing a sportsman's meditative straw:<br>I'd met them years ago, and half-forgotten<br>They'd come to grief (but how, I'd never heard,<br>Poor beggars!); still, it seemed so rude and rotten<br>To stand and gape at them with never a word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ventured 'Ages since we met,' and tried<br>My candid smile of friendship; no success.<br>One scratched his hairy thigh, while t'other sighed<br>And glanced away. I saw they liked me less<br>Than when, on Epsom Downs, in cloudless weather,<br>We backed The Tetrarch and got drunk together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Siegfried+Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</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=518994" data-title="Sporting Acquaintances de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="I watched old squatting Chimpanzee: he traced His painful patterns in the dirt: I saw Red-haired Ourang-utang, whimsical-faced, Chewing a sportsman's meditative straw: I'd met them years ago, and half-forgotten They'd come to grief (but how, I'd n..."></div> </div> </div>

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