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A SUGGESTION
Why not? For queerer things occur
Upon our planet every day;
Produce a big or little stir,
And wither in the usual way,
As anybody knows.
Remembering this, I fail to see
The reason why there cannot be,
Perhaps in Nineteen forty-three,
A Test at Kennington between
Eleven Umpires, fat or lean,
And twenty Eskimos.
Upon our planet every day;
Produce a big or little stir,
And wither in the usual way,
As anybody knows.
Remembering this, I fail to see
The reason why there cannot be,
Perhaps in Nineteen forty-three,
A Test at Kennington between
Eleven Umpires, fat or lean,
And twenty Eskimos.
Why not? This couldn't be more odd
Than playing quoits with Sadducees,
Or Polo at the Cape of Cod,
Or Duplicated Bridge with Crees,
Whose forcing bids are knives.
For fans of Frolic, what a boon
To see in either May or June
The scorer wearing a harpoon,
As though to indicate dispatch,
Should Northland fail to win the match,
Of several Surrey lives.
Than playing quoits with Sadducees,
Or Polo at the Cape of Cod,
Or Duplicated Bridge with Crees,
Whose forcing bids are knives.
For fans of Frolic, what a boon
To see in either May or June
The scorer wearing a harpoon,
As though to indicate dispatch,
Should Northland fail to win the match,
Of several Surrey lives.
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Why not? The simple truth is this,
Dislike it starkly as we may:
Too many games are good to miss,
And others even worse than they,
If Red or White the Rose.
Consider him who can't be brought
To field because his merrythought
Is not behaving as it ought!
Besides, a fleck or two of sleet
Would never terrorize the feet
Of manly Eskimos.
Dislike it starkly as we may:
Too many games are good to miss,
And others even worse than they,
If Red or White the Rose.
Consider him who can't be brought
To field because his merrythought
Is not behaving as it ought!
Besides, a fleck or two of sleet
Would never terrorize the feet
Of manly Eskimos.
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