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6
A VETERAN
Had Fate
In handsome mood permitted me to bowl
As well as Maurice Tate,
I should have felt remarkably elate.
In handsome mood permitted me to bowl
As well as Maurice Tate,
I should have felt remarkably elate.
That verve!
Where green is overhung by cornflower blue
His courage, muscle, nerve
Supply the double gift of Length and Swerve.
Where green is overhung by cornflower blue
His courage, muscle, nerve
Supply the double gift of Length and Swerve.
I sit
Glad-hearted on a bench and note
How Sussex vim and grit
Make red-rose Lancaster decline to hit.
Glad-hearted on a bench and note
How Sussex vim and grit
Make red-rose Lancaster decline to hit.
To-day
Is watching weather of the golden sort,
And I propose to stay
As long as lads are authorized to play.
Is watching weather of the golden sort,
And I propose to stay
As long as lads are authorized to play.
Should damp
Arrive to-morrow from the deuce knows where,
My set of bones will tramp
Pavilionward with Hope beneath a gamp.
Arrive to-morrow from the deuce knows where,
My set of bones will tramp
Pavilionward with Hope beneath a gamp.
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For bowls,
And what appears to be a crafty plan,
With eighteen little holes,
For goading men to jeopardize their souls,
And what appears to be a crafty plan,
With eighteen little holes,
For goading men to jeopardize their souls,
I care
With fully ten times less the warmth I feel
If cricket-driven where
The use of turf is use beyond compare.
With fully ten times less the warmth I feel
If cricket-driven where
The use of turf is use beyond compare.
Had Fate
In frank goodhumour settled long ago
To bracket me with Tate,
I should have felt astoundingly elate!
In frank goodhumour settled long ago
To bracket me with Tate,
I should have felt astoundingly elate!
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