DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY
 

 

Climb Everest in bare feet
Cross the Sahara in summer heat
Read War and Peace at a sitting
Whilst sipping gin and idly knitting
Circumnavigate the mighty main
Ready or not. GET IN LANE
Topple dictators by appeasement
Natural justice without need of arraignment
Match Machiavelli in political scheming
Give Hirst's art some sort of meaning
Contractual honour in the world of sport
All these and others come to nought
When measured against that most secret code
To have cognisance of God in his own abode