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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 18
BALLADE OF BOWLING The Oxford match is no time for pique. The double break says “ Fee-Fo-Fum, I snick the bails, or go plumb-plumb-plumb Into the sticks.” No batsman stays While the ball spins round like a tee-to-tum ; Not every bowler can break both ways! ' ENVOI Prince, if your batting be mild and meek, Think on the burden of these sweet lays, So your revenge you may nobly wreak, And bowl for the ’Varsity all your days; Not every bowler can break both ways!
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…of thumb. Many a man a tune can hum In a manner distinctly beyond all praise, Scrape on a fiddle, or beat a drum :— Not every bowler can break both ways! Men there have been who would daily seek Problems in Algebra—trebly glum, Work at them, groan at them, week by week, Grind like a matchmaker down ir a slum ; Slave all night, though no answer come, Smug all day, though the summer blaze, . All may do that till the brain succumb :— Not every bowler can break both ways! Vain be the struggle of party clique! } The ground is iron, the wicket is cru…
1904 · PDF PAGE 98
…E-SONG For oxidising agents all : And if my love she were to spurn, Like tetra-nitro-di-benzal- Tolu-ethylidene I’d burn. My heart would break up like the mol- Ecule of para-toluene- Diazo-y-amidol- Hydroxy-tri-mesitylene.
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…ke a ringing chord— Nelson and Rodney, Howe and Drake. L’ENVOI England, thy sons shall guard thy coast, While the white waves in thunder break ; While in these names we make our boast— Nelson and Rodney, Howe and Drake.
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…New” dramas with a plot, Find money on a Scot, Find beauty in a bloomer— We'll read your little lot And label it as humour. You think to break our braces With hidden jokes and hot ; Kick over manners’ traces, Reins tangle in the knot Of Boredom—Never trot Your spavined mare, but groom her! You snigger at a sot, And label him as humour. Some pseudo-bloods at races, Some scholar’s polyglot, Some torpid Don’s grimaces, Some spouting Hottentot ; 29
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…overs deserted and dying, Of languour and lilies and lust. There be visions of when we are dust ; There be sonnets and rondels enough To break the terrestrial crust— Lord, keep us from reading the stuff ! When Ajax, the lightning defying, Was rude, his impertinent bust Was shattered. The Editor, trying To write (as an Editor must Though his faculties rapidly rust) Will speak in a manner that’s rough: “You poets deserve to be trussed ! Lord, keep us from reading the stuff!” _ My own little scheme of supplying With fuel the realms of the cussed I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…r chins—“ they are shaggy.” (8) Arolla appears. There were no hearty cheers And no one was anxious about us: “If horrid young fools will break Alpine Club rules ”— In fact, they could get on without us! (9) We sprawled in the sun when the banquet was done (We had feasted on Bouvier 1 and Mauler’”), You said of my knickers—they are not a vicar’s ; It isn’t a hole, it’s a howler ! 1 His champagne. 2 His champagne.