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MISS VENUS
Between the day for starting
On our Cricket Season here
And mid-September's parting
From the best of all the year
A sugared hussy, little,
And as wayward as a dream,
Began to prove how brittle
Was the Tranton Valley team.
On our Cricket Season here
And mid-September's parting
From the best of all the year
A sugared hussy, little,
And as wayward as a dream,
Began to prove how brittle
Was the Tranton Valley team.
If ever Venus fashioned
For the bringing of defeats
A Beauty over-rationed
In regard to fatal sweets,
This girl, intent on spooning
Wheresoever she might be,
Provocative of mooning,
Most undoubtedly was she.
For the bringing of defeats
A Beauty over-rationed
In regard to fatal sweets,
This girl, intent on spooning
Wheresoever she might be,
Provocative of mooning,
Most undoubtedly was she.
The rot began when Merton,
Who was Captain of the side,
Because the maid from Girton
Seemed the shadow of a bride,
At lunch, with bleak insistence,
Thrust away his half-and-half
And glared upon the distance
Like a puzzled orphan calf.
Who was Captain of the side,
Because the maid from Girton
Seemed the shadow of a bride,
At lunch, with bleak insistence,
Thrust away his half-and-half
And glared upon the distance
Like a puzzled orphan calf.
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He won her pledge. She jilted
With an air of unconcern
Our Captain. How he wilted
When his brother took a turn!
This blast of variation
Was destructive too of Ned.
In short, the ruination
Whirled along from A to Z.
With an air of unconcern
Our Captain. How he wilted
When his brother took a turn!
This blast of variation
Was destructive too of Ned.
In short, the ruination
Whirled along from A to Z.
Full fifty years will wither
Into nothingness before
Our memories cease to dither
In the cold of what we bore
When Tranton Valley, duffered
By the singeing of that Flame,
Throughout the season suffered,
Twice a week, repulsive shame!
Into nothingness before
Our memories cease to dither
In the cold of what we bore
When Tranton Valley, duffered
By the singeing of that Flame,
Throughout the season suffered,
Twice a week, repulsive shame!
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