The Poetry Corner

Imitated From Wordsworth

By Robert Fuller Murray

He brought a team from Inversnaid To play our Third Fifteen, A man whom none of us had played And very few had seen. He weighed not less than eighteen stone, And to a practised eye He seemed as little fit to run As he was fit to fly. He looked so clumsy and so slow, And made so little fuss; But he got in behind--and oh, The difference to us!