Along the quiet back streets pedalling up and down <br />Three boys on their bicycles in the old country town <br />The prime years of their lives a decade ahead <br />The future belong to the youth as has often been said <br />The magpie on a street tree is fluting his song <br />As three boys on their bicycles pedal along <br />Chatting of football stars and the fortunes of their favourite football team <br />To be great football players they do often daydream <br />With their football boots slung across the handlebars to the football oval bound <br />'Tis every young players dream for to be best on ground <br />At the famed M C G on Grand Final Day <br />Though that for them over a decade away <br />Full of young ambition and dreams of renown <br />They pedal along the back streets of the town.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/three-boys-on-their-bicycles/
