EXODUS 



SPORTS can be regarded from many points 

 of view. May we go, good, patient reader, 

 hand-in-hand and visit the sequent vantage- 

 grounds from which vistas of the past and 

 present stretch themselves in homely or in 

 foreign guise before us ? Nay, do not refuse ; 

 the journey is over no longer road than a 

 few more pages, and if silver-tongued Hermes 

 beguile but our impatience, will pass and end 

 as do all things that have begun. 



i. Painted savages, blue and unearthly, 

 come over the hill-brow uttering weird and 

 blood-curdling cries ; the woods beneath 

 resound with the deep baying of huge, 

 fierce dogs ; a black, bristling animal crashes 

 through gigantic timber, and frenzied eyes 



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