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Brahma
AFTER EMERSON
If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,
Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled,
They know not, poor misguided souls,
They too shall perish unconsoled.
I am the batsman and the bat,
I am the bowler and the ball,
The umpire, the pavilion cat,
The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.
Loyal Lyrics
Cricket Rhymes
Critical of Life, Art, and Literature
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- A Remonstrance with the Fair
- Rhyme of Rhymes
- Rhyme of Oxford Cockney Rhymes
- Rococo
- The Food of Fiction
- 'A Highly Valuable Chain of Thoughts'
- Matrimony
- Piscatori Piscator
- The Contented Angler
- Off My Game
- The Property of a Gentleman
- The Ballade of the Subconscious Self
- Ballade of the Optimist
- Zimbabwe
- Love's Cryptogram
- Tusitala
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- Tall Salmacis
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