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TO A FAMOUS FIRM
Don't imagine I resent
Bitter lessons taught me,
Messrs Frost and Ice & Co.,
When you roughly fought me
Through the saplings, up the hill,
Over sodden heather,
Hour by hour with Kinderscout's
Double-fisted weather.
Bitter lessons taught me,
Messrs Frost and Ice & Co.,
When you roughly fought me
Through the saplings, up the hill,
Over sodden heather,
Hour by hour with Kinderscout's
Double-fisted weather.
Don't imagine I resent
Drifted fury seen on
Cutting Corner, where I met
Wind enough to lean on!
When the Christmas berries burn
Lamp-like on the hollies
Out I stagger, proud to front
Hail in slanting volleys!
Drifted fury seen on
Cutting Corner, where I met
Wind enough to lean on!
When the Christmas berries burn
Lamp-like on the hollies
Out I stagger, proud to front
Hail in slanting volleys!
Still, I savagely resent
Polar sleet in May-time
Just as much as farmers loathe
Deluges in hay-time.
When I hear romantic birds
Billing in a thicket
Then I hum the flats and sharps
Modulating Cricket.
Polar sleet in May-time
Just as much as farmers loathe
Deluges in hay-time.
When I hear romantic birds
Billing in a thicket
Then I hum the flats and sharps
Modulating Cricket.
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Countless lads of Flanneldom,
Winter-weary, aching,
Hurry crease-ward, there to score
Totals worth the making.
Messrs Frost and Ice & Co.,
Think it shame to banish
Centuries from England! Budge!
Can't you hear me? Vanish!
Winter-weary, aching,
Hurry crease-ward, there to score
Totals worth the making.
Messrs Frost and Ice & Co.,
Think it shame to banish
Centuries from England! Budge!
Can't you hear me? Vanish!
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