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Thread #122544   Message #2692832
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
03-Aug-09 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Swimsuits at WCs - what's the fuss?
Subject: RE: BS: Swimsuits at WCs - what's the fuss?
Thanks, TS; and, at the other extreme, I think I'll try and post my (I'm-no-fish) swimming poem cum song, again...

Poem 5 of 230: STATE TO STATE

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From Sydney Town,
    In uni. break,
I drove out west
    To earnings make
Onion picking,
    On the fields
Of Echuca,
    That year's yields.

                                  After day's work,
                                     From Y.H.A.,
                                  A group of us
                                     Would not delay
                                  To walk on down
                                     To the dirt rim
                                  Of the Murray,
                                     For a cool swim.

On one such day,
    I do declare,
Some three of us
    Had a big dare
To swim across,
    From state to state,
The wide Murray -
    I took the bait.

                                  Yes, foolishly,
                                     I took the bait -
                                  A choice that I
                                     Would come to hate,
                                  For I almost
                                     Did drown that date,
                                  Making the swim
                                     From state to state.

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