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Thread #111493 Message #2352107
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
29-May-08 - 12:29 PM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
May I steal your thunder for a moment, Nick, and respond to Phil's promotion of the passionate attitude with this (it refers to a quote from the late Alf Ramsey, "It will all end in tears"):
Poem 150 of 230: TEARS
Watching a documentary
Of the '66 World Cup,
And the way of England's Ramsey,
I thought: "Let's give 'passion' up."
It voiced and showed his calm way -
He playing things down a touch;
And, as his home team won the day,
They showed care but not too much.
Analytical Englishmen -
Cool over the tasks that lay;
We see some of it in Henman,
But it's not the modern way.
Sadly, passion and youthful thought
Have become the status quo,
And social-standards and sport
Have sunk relatively low.
From walkaboutsverse.741.com