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C J Dennis - The Listener
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Why, certainly.  Let`s listen to the cricket.
   Oh, I`m quite keen.  Test match, I understand.
At... What`s that?  Oh, Australia`s at the wicket.
   South Africa -- a most intriguing land.
Yes, I was there in -- nineteen -- let me see --
   In nineteen -- Dear me!  Memory is so tricky.
Met Cecil Rhodes, you know.  He said to me,
   I recollect -- eh?  Oh.  The wicket`s sticky.

Great Cecil Rhodes.  There was a master mind,
   A dreamer, yet so practical, creative.
South Africa, Well, well.  Today I find
   Their urgent problem doubtless is the native,
Zulus, you know.  Basutos.  In the war
   With Kruger -- Eh?  Oh, sorry.  Are they playing?
Really?  What`s all the caterwauling for?
   Eagleton out?  Pity... What was I saying?

Of course, yes, Africa.  I`ve seen it all,
   From Jo`burg up thro` Kenya to Fashoda.
One night in Cairo I plainly recall --
   (Oh, thanks.  A very small one.  Heaps of soda)...
That day I brought my first big lion down -
   Wounded, you know.  I thought my time had ended.
Just then Smith fired -- Beg pardon?  Brown?  Who`s Brown?
   Oh, hit another fourer did he?  Splendid!...

...So then the old witch doctor made his magic.
   Ghastly!  Incredible!  Yet, who could doubt?
That`s Africa, mysterious primal, tragic,
   Those voodoo rites ... McCabe?  Is he yet out?
What?  Finished, have they?  Thought I missed the din.
   Twenty to two?  It can`t be!  Shocking!  Shocking!
Thanks for allowing me to listen in.
   Enjoyed it, too.  Well, I shan`t need much rocking.
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