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URGENT
(April, 1926)
Jupiter Pluvius, icy pelter
Scattering cricketers helter-skelter,
Have you the niggardly heart to damp
Athletic England's national gamp?
Preserve from hail and flying fire
That spread of turf in the midland shire
Honoured to-day above the rest
As the favoured field of the Opening Test.
Scattering cricketers helter-skelter,
Have you the niggardly heart to damp
Athletic England's national gamp?
Preserve from hail and flying fire
That spread of turf in the midland shire
Honoured to-day above the rest
As the favoured field of the Opening Test.
Jupiter Pluvius, can you wonder
Collins and Carr are weary of thunder?
Sad will it be if a Team that comes
Twelve thousand miles shall twiddle its thumbs
Instead of fronting noble Fate
In league with umpires, turf, and Tate;
Burning to dare the changeable odds
Of a flannelled war with our demi-gods.
Collins and Carr are weary of thunder?
Sad will it be if a Team that comes
Twelve thousand miles shall twiddle its thumbs
Instead of fronting noble Fate
In league with umpires, turf, and Tate;
Burning to dare the changeable odds
Of a flannelled war with our demi-gods.
Jupiter Pluvius, cloudy master,
Patron of ducks and damp disaster,
Little we beg but a sterling proof
Of heroes under a radiant roof!
Permit the sun to show his flame
Amid such blue as the Foremost Game
Rightly needs when the Southern Cross
And the Star of England settle the Toss!
Patron of ducks and damp disaster,
Little we beg but a sterling proof
Of heroes under a radiant roof!
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Amid such blue as the Foremost Game
Rightly needs when the Southern Cross
And the Star of England settle the Toss!
Jupiter Pluvius, icy pelter
Scattering cricketers helter-skelter,
Buckets of rain were never meant
To spoil this fight at the Bridge of Trent.
Withhold for less imperial days
The talkative thunder! Golden rays,
Freckles, and puggarees are best
When the Two-and-Twenty tackle the Test!
Scattering cricketers helter-skelter,
Buckets of rain were never meant
To spoil this fight at the Bridge of Trent.
Withhold for less imperial days
The talkative thunder! Golden rays,
Freckles, and puggarees are best
When the Two-and-Twenty tackle the Test!
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