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Page 1 of 11904 · PDF PAGE 16
4 BALLADE OF TRIPOS FEVER You won't paint the universe blue, You won't paint the universe red, You'd better join in with us two :— “The Trip! and I wish I were dead.” ENVOI Princess, if they ever exhume, From the Corn Exchange, me, and we wed, I shall make this poor joke, with a bloom Of happiness which, I assume, You will not consider ill-bred, As we book for the Land of the Oom :— “The Trip! and I wish I were dead.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…ll, and pretty Rosalys (the girl I saw the race with) must be slurred over. Conclude. A thousand kind words and a word over to those who won and those who gamely stuck to it though they were beaten. (Next time better luck to it !)? 1 As a direct result of these remarks the boat-race was indeed won by us the very next year but three or four.
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…we consider the best kind of writing, a leader to congratulate our crews or comment on their conduct should they lose, to mention how we won (or lost) the sports, and how we battled in the Racquet- Courts. Another column will refer to Fletcher, and technicalities of thwart and stretcher, and how the wind— I almost might have written this article within the groves of Ditton before the race was won (so easy is it scenes to describe without an actual visit to the stern waters of the Thames at Hammersmith or at Mortlake). In the noblest grammar, wi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…lific brood of yet Unincubated chicks! Let newly-wedded couples name No visionary son ; And let not Quatre Bras exclaim That Waterloo is won. Let fiancées (of fifteen years) No furniture discuss ; Let mountains never pose as seers Of the expected “ mus.” Let glories of a novel climb Before that climb be dumb ; Nor of a record-breaking time Before the achievement hum. Let no man of his doings boast Before those deeds be wrought; No cook proceed his hare to roast Before that hare be caught.
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
…your sun, A worm in your pea-pod— I trump you, when you have begun To reckon on the odd. With what a mighty smack Your King of Trumps is won! Your partner’s face grows very black ; He doesn’t think it fun. A Yankee would have used a gun, A schoolmaster a rod— A ten ace may be led of none Who reckon on the odd. And now, amid the wrack Of your position, Their old established suit comes back, With an unfettered run ;
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…whether by force of language or mere loudness of call, That this truth is a type of true triumph beyond the bad odds of a bet, In fact I won’t take your money (the first law of betting is that you mayn’t bet on a certainty) so perfectly convinced by this time are all wise men that the score of life is at Love-all. So we twain will sing together ;— Spring regilds her coronet; Summer comes and don’t go neither, [This line is neither grammar nor rhyme, I'm afraid ; it’s my mistake entirely, I took a perfectly absurd word to begin with, and after g…