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36 BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS And a very good piece of advice it was too (Chorus, please!) The score of life is at Love-all. ENVOI Nothing is like leather. The rhyme is passable—a task by no means small. Though its connection is certainly not obvious—still our cap has lost no feather :— Done it, by Jupiter! We can only say farewell, gentle reader, impressing on you the truth (put in Tennis language because this ballade is all about Tennis) that the score of life is at Love-all.
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
34 BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS ridiculous characters of which we hear so much and see so little, is to point out the analogy of lawn-tennis and life in a light and humorous way which even on the most blasé of Freshmen will be unlikely to pall. I will quote you the Walt that was Whitman, the Wilde that was Oscar, the Vincent O’Sullivan, paean | and chant of the classical world, songs from America due to the lyre of the Harte that was Bret. ~ And all these estimable personages, very useful in their way, but to be strenuously opposed if they should end…
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
…ess Climbing . Ballade of the Backs Ballade of Cambridge Papers Ballade of the New Humour Ballade of the One-Eyed Tout . Ballade of Lawn Tennis . Ballade of Serious Ballades Ballade of Old Admirals A Refrain of a Far Country A Ballade of Farewell vii PAGE 1X
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
BALLADE OF THE MAY TERM TENNIS and cricket have come to stay, Five o'clock is the time to bring Tea and strawberry ice, and play Various dulcet jargoning; . Lazy paddle all day to swing, Lazy pipe to kill ennut’s germ, Lazy, lazy everything :— Sing heigh-ho for the glad May Term ! O hooray! merry boys, hooray! Flannels are pleasures that have no sting. Everyone’s white and cool and gay ; Everyone looks as if a wing Might any moment sprout and spring, Turning him into an “alb’ inerm’ Angelum,” like Aladdin’s ring; Sing heigh-ho for the glad May …
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS [WE have long held Mr Swinburne and Mr W. S. Gilbert to be the greatest poets of all time. This attempt to combine their metres and styles ought consequently to produce the finest poem of all time. We affirm unhesitatingly that it has !] In the godlike golden glory of the vast irremeable insuperable weather (Where those perfectly beastly bad Rembrandt effects are, over by the sunset that looks so very much as if to-morrow would be wet) They have bridled the sun with a beautiful bit of black and purple clouds, to tie the P…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS 35 (If I do bore him, I’m not in a disgusting music hall set!) Though he chatter and chortle and chuckle, at last to the point he will get, Which as I have previously observed is to make it perfectly plain to the initiated, 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 …