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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. W. Boynton
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Golfer's Rubaiyat
+
+Author: H. W. Boynton
+
+Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24018]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
+file was produced from images generously made available
+by The Internet Archive)
+
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note: Each verse is contained
+within a full-page illustration, so the
+illustration tags within the text have
+been removed to avoid congestion.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubáiyát
+
+
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubáiyát
+
+
+
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubáiyát
+
+ by
+ H.W. Boynton
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ Herbert S. Stone
+ & Company
+
+ Chicago 1901
+
+
+
+
+ Copyright, 1901,
+ by Herbert S. Stone & Co.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+The Golfer's Rubáiyát
+
+
+I
+
+ WAKE! for the sun has driven in equal flight
+The stars before him from the Tee of Night,
+ And holed them every one without a Miss,
+Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft of Light.
+
+
+II
+
+ WAKE, Loiterer! for already Dawn is seen
+With her red marker on the eastern Green,
+ And summons all her Little Ones to change
+A joyous Three for every sad Thirteen.
+
+
+III
+
+ AND as the Cock crew, those who stood before
+The first Tee murmur'd: "Just this chance to score,
+ You know how little while we have to play,
+And, once departed, may return no more."
+
+
+IV
+
+ NOW the fresh Year, reviving old Desires,
+The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
+ Pores on this Club and That with anxious eye,
+And dreams of Rounds beyond the Rounds of Liars.
+
+
+V
+
+ CAMPBELL indeed is past with all his Fame,
+And old Tom Morris now is but a name;
+ But many a Jamie by the Bunker blows,
+And many a Willie rules us, just the same.
+
+
+VI
+
+ A THOUSAND lips are lockt; but still in hoar
+High-balling Andrew's Shrine, with "Fore, fore, fore!
+ Oh, fore!" the Golfer to the Duffer cries,
+That reddened cheek of his to redden more.
+
+
+VII
+
+ COME, choose your Ball, and in the fire of Spring
+Your Red Coat, and your wooden Putter fling;
+ The Club of Time has but a little while
+To waggle, and the Club is on the swing.
+
+
+VII
+
+ WHETHER at Musselburgh or Shinnecock,
+In motley Hose or humbler motley Sock,
+ The Cup of Life is ebbing Drop by Drop,
+Whether the Cup be filled with Scotch or Bock.
+
+
+IX
+
+ EACH Morn a thousand Matches brings, you say;
+Yes, but who plays the Match of Yesterday?
+ And this first Summer month of opening Greens
+Shall take this Championship and That away.
+
+
+X
+
+ WELL, let it take them! What have we to do
+With Championships, or, Champion, with you?
+ Let This or Other struggle as he will,
+For him alone the Strife--for him to rue.
+
+
+XI
+
+ WITH me along the strip of sandy Down
+That just divides the Desert from the sown,
+ Where name of Shop and Study is forgot,--
+And Peace to Croker on his golden Throne!
+
+
+XII
+
+ A BAG of Clubs, a Silver-Town or two,
+A Flask of Scotch, a Pipe of Shag--and Thou
+ Beside me caddying in the Wilderness--
+Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow.
+
+
+XIII
+
+ SOME for the weekly Handicap; and some
+Sigh for a greater Championship to come:
+ Ah, play the Match, and let the Medal go,
+Nor heed old Bogey with his wretched Sum.
+
+
+XIV
+
+ LOOK to the blowing Rows about us--"Lo,
+"Strolling," they say, "over the course we go,
+ "And here or there we lightly flick the Ball,
+"Turn, and the Trick is done--in So-and-so."
+
+
+XV
+
+ BUT those who keep their Cards and turn them in,
+And those who weekly Handicaps may win,
+ Alike to no such aureate Fame are brought,
+As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
+
+
+XVI
+
+ THE shining Cup men set their hearts upon
+Is lost to them--or won them; and anon,
+ Like a good Three set in a bald Three-score,
+That Glory gleams a moment--and is gone.
+
+
+XVII
+
+ THINK, in this worn, forlorn old Field of Play,
+Whose Green-keepers in turn are Night and Day,
+ How Champion after Champion with his Pomp
+Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
+
+
+XVIII
+
+ THEY say the Female and the Duffer strut
+On sacred Greens where Morris used to putt;
+ Himself a natural Hazard now, alas!
+That nice Hand quiet now, that great Eye shut.
+
+
+XIX
+
+ I SOMETIMES think that never springs so green
+The Turf as where some Good Fellow has been,
+ And every emerald Stretch the Fair Green shows
+His kindly Tread has known, his sure Play seen.
+
+
+XX
+
+ AND this reviving Herb whose tender green
+Muffles the fair white Sphere o'er which we lean,
+ Ah, curse it gently, for here Jamie once--
+Great Jamie--lay, and fetch'd a bad Thirteen.
+
+
+XXI
+
+ AH, my Belovéd, play the Round that offers
+TO-DAY some joy, whate'er To-morrow suffers:
+ To-morrow!--why, to-morrow I may be
+Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Duffers.
+
+
+XXII
+
+ AND some we loved, the feeblest with a Club,
+Ordain'd to sclaff, to foozle, and to flub,
+ Have turned in Cards a Round or two before,
+And played that final Green without a Rub.
+
+
+XXIII
+
+ AND we that now make merry on the Green
+They left, and Summer dresses in new sheen,
+ Ourselves must we beneath the springing Turf
+Add our Ell to the Bunker of Has-been.
+
+
+XXIV
+
+ AH, make the most of what we yet may spend
+Before we too into the Dust descend;
+ Dust into dust, and under Dust to lie,
+Sans Breath, sans Golf, sans Golfer, and--sans End!
+
+
+XXV
+
+ ALIKE for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
+And those who after some TO-MORROW stare,
+ A Keeper from the Links of Darkness cries
+Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There.
+
+
+XXVI
+
+ WHY, all the Toms and Jamies who discuss'd
+Of the True Art so wisely--they are thrust
+ Like foolish prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
+Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
+
+
+XXVII
+
+ MYSELF when young did eagerly frequent
+Jamie and His, and heard great argument
+ Of Grip and Stance and Swing; but evermore
+Found at the Exit but a Dollar spent.
+
+
+XXVIII
+
+ WITH them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
+And with mine own hand sought to make it grow;
+ And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd--
+"You hold it This Way, and you swing it So."
+
+
+XXIX
+
+ PATIENT I fared to many a sacred Spot,
+Ev'n at the Shrine of Andrew cast my lot,
+ And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road;
+But not, alas! of Golf the Master-knot.
+
+
+XXX
+
+ THERE was a Green for which I found no Tee,
+And a blind Bunker which I might not see:
+ Out of the distant Dark a Voice cries "Fore!"
+And then--and then no more of Thee and Me.
+
+
+XXXI
+
+ AS then the Sparrow for his morning Crumb,
+Do thou each Morrow to the First Tee come,
+ And play thy quiet Round, till crusty Age
+Condemn thee to a hopeless Dufferdom.
+
+
+XXXII
+
+ PERPLEXT no more with Where or How or Why,
+Thy easy fingers to the Shaft apply,
+ Content to send away a fair straight Ball,
+Though follow'd earthward by the naked Eye.
+
+
+XXXIII
+
+ AND if the Ball you drive, the Shaft you press,
+End in what all begins and ends in--Yes;
+ Thank Heav'n you play TO-DAY as YESTERDAY
+You play'd--TO-MORROW you shall not do less.
+
+
+XXXIV
+
+ GLAD if the Master of the Handicap
+At last shall find you come without Mishap,
+ Though without Glory, to turn in the Card
+He has expected of your sort of Chap.
+
+
+XXXV
+
+ WHAT though a Fluke should fling your Class aside,
+And Best Gross be your momentary pride:
+ Are you a Golfer more than when last week
+You did YOUR best, and barely saved your Hide?
+
+
+XXXVI
+
+ 'TIS like a private Bar where for a Day
+Innumerable Rickies come your way,
+ Happy--but on the morrow happier far
+Had there been less to drink and more to pay.
+
+
+XXXVII
+
+ AND fear not lest the Fair Green after your
+Ill-luck and mine should yield Bad Lies no more;
+ One or two Others may fare ill as you:
+Nay, even three, or maybe--maybe four.
+
+
+XXXVIII
+
+ WHEN you and I our final Match have play'd,
+Think not the ever-springing Green shall fade;
+ Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
+As Caddies heed the Bag,--their Quarter paid.
+
+
+XXXIX
+
+ A MOMENT'S Flight--a momentary Flick
+Of Being from the Providential Stick,
+ And Lo!--the phantom human Sphere has reacht
+The Nothing it set out from--Ah, be quick!
+
+
+XL
+
+ WOULD you that Fillip of Existence spend
+About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
+ A Hair perhaps divides the False and True,
+And upon what, prithee, does this Golf depend?
+
+
+XLI
+
+ A HAIR perhaps divides the False and True,
+Yes, and a single Jamie were the Clue--
+ Could you but find him--to the Championship,
+And peradventure to the Champion too.
+
+
+XLII
+
+ AND yet what matter who a Moment reigns?
+'Tis not for such a Toy you take your pains;
+ To play the steady, simple, honest Game;
+That is the Joy and Credit that remains.
+
+
+XLIII
+
+ BEHIND the uprisen Turf fair in the Ditch,
+To risk the Overhang, or play back--which
+ To do? Ah, Brother, let the Gallery go:
+Than tear the Web, better to drop a Stitch!
+
+
+XLIV
+
+ TWO--Three--aye, better Golf we all have seen--
+But--bravo! Four--a sweet Approach and Clean;
+ Steady, you still may well go down in Five:
+There are no Hazards on the Putting-Green.
+
+
+XLV
+
+ WASTE not your Hour, nor try in vain to fix
+The How and Why--some wondrous Brew to mix;
+ Better be jocund with a calm Two-score
+Than sadden for a bitter Thirty-six.
+
+
+XLVI
+
+ STRANGE, is it not?--that of the myriads who
+Into the Out-of-Bounds have late play'd through,
+ Not one returns to tell us of the Stroke
+To guarantee the shortest Hole in Two.
+
+
+XLVII
+
+ THE Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
+But Here or There as strikes the Player goes,
+ And ye who play behold the Ball fly clean,
+Or roll a Rod; but why? Who knows? Who knows?
+
+
+XLVIII
+
+ THE swinging Brassie strikes; and, having struck,
+Moves on: nor all your Wit or future Luck
+ Shall lure it back to cancel half a Stroke,
+Nor from the Card a single Seven pluck.
+
+
+XLIX
+
+ NO hope by Club or Ball to win the Prize:
+The batter'd, blacken'd Re-made sweetly flies,
+ Swept cleanly from the Tee; this is the truth:
+Nine-tenths is Skill, and all the rest is Lies.
+
+
+L
+
+ AND that inverted Ball they call the High--
+By which the Duffer thinks to live or die,
+ Lift not your hands to IT for help, for it
+As impotently froths as you or I.
+
+
+LI
+
+ OF Earth's first Clay was the last Golfer framed,
+And that last Golfer's latest Score was named
+ When the first Morning of Creation sang
+The Dirge of every Duffer Golf has claimed.
+
+
+LII
+
+ YESTERDAY this Day's Foozling did prepare;
+TO-MORROW'S Slicing will not yield to Prayer:
+ Play! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
+Play! for you know not why you go, nor where.
+
+
+LIII
+
+ I TELL you this--When, after youth was past,
+A kindly Heav'n gave me to Golf at last;
+ No Freedom but I gladly barter'd for
+The satisfying Bond that holds me fast.
+
+
+LIV
+
+ AND this I know: there is a Charm about
+The quiet State of Golf, tho' fools may flout,
+ That with its magic has unlock'd the Door
+Of Happiness they only howl without.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+LV
+
+ AS under cover of departing Day
+Slinks the defeated Duffer on his way,
+ Once more within the Maker's house alone
+I stood, surrounded by the Tools of Play.
+
+
+LVI
+
+ CLUBS of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
+That stood along the floor and by the wall;
+ And some old batter'd Veterans were; and some
+Had swung perhaps, but never driv'n at all.
+
+
+LVII
+
+ SAID one among them--"Surely not for naught
+Tom Morris fashion'd me with anxious thought,
+ Has not my Form won many a Match and Cup?
+And yet--and yet--I am no longer bought."
+
+
+LVIII
+
+ THEN said a Second--"Hear the Codger croak!
+Sure he would make of Golf an ancient Joke;
+ But Me--just think! a modern Willie Park,
+My fickle Owner cannot sell nor soak!"
+
+
+LIX
+
+ AFTER a momentary silence spake
+A Brassie of a more ungainly make--
+ "They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
+Well, then, I ask who won the last Sweepstake?"
+
+
+LX
+
+ WHEREAT some one of the loquacious Lot,
+I think a putting Niblick, or if not,
+ A driving Putter, or a goose-neck'd Cleek--
+"Pray, what is Golf then,--and the Golfer what?"
+
+
+LXI
+
+ "WHY," said another, "Some there are who say
+That Golf is but a Game that Golfers play,
+ And some that Life is but a mighty Green,
+And Golf the Art to use it day by day."
+
+
+LXII
+
+ "WELL," murmur'd one, "let whoso make or buy,
+All in one Pickle we--like as we lie:
+ For let the right Good-Fellow come along,
+We all may lay the Ball dead by and by."
+
+
+LXIII
+
+ SO one and one and one I heard them speak:
+"Ah, Friends," said I, "'tis not a Make we seek,
+ A Duffer arm'd with all the Clubs there be--
+What is he to a Player with a Cleek?"
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+LXIV
+
+ LATELY, agape beside the door of Fame,
+Sudden a Touch upon my shoulder came,
+ And thro' the Dusk an Angel Shape held out
+The greater Guerdon; and it was--the Game!
+
+
+LXV
+
+ THE Game that can with Logic absolute
+The Dronings of the Soberheads confute,
+ Silence the scoffing ones, and in a trice
+Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.
+
+
+LXVI
+
+ INDEED, the brave Game I have loved so well
+Has little taught me how to buy or sell;
+ Has pawn'd my Greatness for an Hour of Ease,
+And barter'd cold Cash for--a Miracle.
+
+
+LXVII
+
+ INDEED, indeed, Repentance oft before
+I swore--but it was Winter when I swore,
+ And then and then came Spring, and Club-in-hand
+I hasten'd forth for one Round--one Round more.
+
+
+LXVIII
+
+ BUT much as Golf has play'd the Infidel,
+And robb'd me of my worldly Profit--Well,
+ I often wonder what the Grubbers earn
+One half so precious as the Joy they sell.
+
+
+LXIX
+
+ WHAT! for a senseless Bank-Account to wreak
+Their manly Strength on Ledgers, till too weak
+ To swing a club?--So Caddies calmly tread
+In Mire the Ball Heav'n sent them here to seek.
+
+
+LXX
+
+ WHAT! as a poor dull Drudge to waste the Force
+That might have made a Golfer, till the Source
+ Of Golf be dried--and Life grow all too brief
+To top a Ball around the Ladies' Course!
+
+
+LXXI
+
+ YET, ah, that Golf should vanish with the green!
+What noble matches Winter might have seen;
+ And in Old Age what glorious Hazards foil'd,
+What Zest of painful Pleasures might have been!
+
+
+LXXII
+
+ WOULD but the dim Face of old Winter yield
+One glimpse of green, like Youth to Age reveal'd,
+ Thro' which once more the failing Limbs might spring
+As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field.
+
+
+LXXIII
+
+ AH! with the Green my fading life provide,
+Some ancient golfing Crony by my side:
+ Content to play one Round, or, meeker still,
+To mix a gentle Foursome satisfied.
+
+
+LXXIV
+
+ THAT even the wavering Remnant of the Swing
+May bear some witness to my virtuous Spring,
+ And leave no True-believer passing-by
+Unedified by its Admonishing.
+
+
+LXXV
+
+ WOULD but the god of Golfers ere too late
+Arrest the sure-advancing step of Fate,
+ What matter if we play the Odd or Like?
+Or--if we play--hole out in Four or Eight?
+
+
+LXXVI
+
+ AH, let the Honor go to Fate, and let
+All difficulties by that Crack be met;
+ The Duffer still may win a Half or two,
+Content while Fate is only Dormie yet.
+
+
+LXXVII
+
+ OR if ev'n this be taken, you and I
+May still fare onward calmly, honestly,
+ Nor care how many Down the Record stand:
+The Match is over--Let us play the Bye!
+
+
+LXXVIII
+
+ YON rising Moon that leads us Home again,
+How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
+ How oft hereafter rising wait for us
+At this same Turning--and for _One_ in vain.
+
+
+LXXIX
+
+ AND when, like her, my Golfer, I have been
+And am no more above the pleasant Green,
+ And you in your mild Journey pass the Hole
+I made in One--ah! pay my Forfeit then!
+
+
+TAMÁM
+
+
+
+
+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
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+<h2>The Golfer&#8217;s Rub&aacute;iy&aacute;t</h2>
+
+<h3>I</h3>
+
+<p><span class="poem1">WAKE! for the sun has driven in equal flight</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The stars before him from the Tee of Night,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And holed them every one without a Miss,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft of Light.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img6.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>II</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WAKE, Loiterer! for already Dawn is seen</span><br />
+<span class="poem">With her red marker on the eastern Green,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And summons all her Little Ones to change</span><br />
+<span class="poem">A joyous Three for every sad Thirteen.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;">
+<img src="images/img7.jpg" width="294" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>III</h3>
+
+<p><span class="poem1">AND as the Cock crew, those who stood before</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The first Tee murmur&#8217;d: &ldquo;Just this chance to score,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">You know how little while we have to play,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And, once departed, may return no more.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img8.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>IV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">NOW the fresh Year, reviving old Desires,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Pores on this Club and That with anxious eye,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And dreams of Rounds beyond the Rounds of Liars.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img9.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>V</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">CAMPBELL indeed is past with all his Fame,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And old Tom Morris now is but a name;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">But many a Jamie by the Bunker blows,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And many a Willie rules us, just the same.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img10.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<h3>VI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">A THOUSAND lips are lockt; but still in hoar</span><br />
+<span class="poem">High-balling Andrew&#8217;s Shrine, with &ldquo;Fore, fore, fore!</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Oh, fore!&rdquo; the Golfer to the Duffer cries,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That reddened cheek of his to redden more.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;">
+<img src="images/img11.jpg" width="293" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>VII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">COME, choose your Ball, and in the fire of Spring</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Your Red Coat, and your wooden Putter fling;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">The Club of Time has but a little while</span><br />
+<span class="poem">To waggle, and the Club is on the swing.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img12.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>VII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHETHER at Musselburgh or Shinnecock,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">In motley Hose or humbler motley Sock,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">The Cup of Life is ebbing Drop by Drop,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Whether the Cup be filled with Scotch or Bock.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img13.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>IX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">EACH Morn a thousand Matches brings, you say;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Yes, but who plays the Match of Yesterday?</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And this first Summer month of opening Greens</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Shall take this Championship and That away.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img14.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>X</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WELL, let it take them! What have we to do</span><br />
+<span class="poem">With Championships, or, Champion, with you?</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Let This or Other struggle as he will,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">For him alone the Strife&mdash;for him to rue.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img15.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WITH me along the strip of sandy Down</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That just divides the Desert from the sown,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Where name of Shop and Study is forgot,&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And Peace to Croker on his golden Throne!</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img16.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">A BAG of Clubs, a Silver-Town or two,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">A Flask of Scotch, a Pipe of Shag&mdash;and Thou</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Beside me caddying in the Wilderness&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img17.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">SOME for the weekly Handicap; and some</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Sigh for a greater Championship to come:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Ah, play the Match, and let the Medal go,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Nor heed old Bogey with his wretched Sum.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img18.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">LOOK to the blowing Rows about us&mdash;&ldquo;Lo,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&ldquo;Strolling,&rdquo; they say, &ldquo;over the course we go,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">&ldquo;And here or there we lightly flick the Ball,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&ldquo;Turn, and the Trick is done&mdash;in So-and-so.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img19.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">BUT those who keep their Cards and turn them in,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And those who weekly Handicaps may win,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Alike to no such aureate Fame are brought,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">As, buried once, Men want dug up again.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img20.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THE shining Cup men set their hearts upon</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Is lost to them&mdash;or won them; and anon,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Like a good Three set in a bald Three-score,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That Glory gleams a moment&mdash;and is gone.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img21.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THINK, in this worn, forlorn old Field of Play,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Whose Green-keepers in turn are Night and Day,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">How Champion after Champion with his Pomp</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Abode his destin&#8217;d Hour and went his way.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img22.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THEY say the Female and the Duffer strut</span><br />
+<span class="poem">On sacred Greens where Morris used to putt;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Himself a natural Hazard now, alas!</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That nice Hand quiet now, that great Eye shut.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img23.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">I SOMETIMES think that never springs so green</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The Turf as where some Good Fellow has been,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And every emerald Stretch the Fair Green shows</span><br />
+<span class="poem">His kindly Tread has known, his sure Play seen.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img24.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND this reviving Herb whose tender green</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Muffles the fair white Sphere o&#8217;er which we lean,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Ah, curse it gently, for here Jamie once&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Great Jamie&mdash;lay, and fetch&#8217;d a bad Thirteen.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img25.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AH, my Belov&eacute;d, play the Round that offers</span><br />
+<span class="poem">TO-DAY some joy, whate&#8217;er To-morrow suffers:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">To-morrow!&mdash;why, to-morrow I may be</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Myself with Yesterday&#8217;s Sev&#8217;n thousand Duffers.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img26.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND some we loved, the feeblest with a Club,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Ordain&#8217;d to sclaff, to foozle, and to flub,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Have turned in Cards a Round or two before,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And played that final Green without a Rub.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img27.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND we that now make merry on the Green</span><br />
+<span class="poem">They left, and Summer dresses in new sheen,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Ourselves must we beneath the springing Turf</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Add our Ell to the Bunker of Has-been.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img28.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AH, make the most of what we yet may spend</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Before we too into the Dust descend;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Dust into dust, and under Dust to lie,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Sans Breath, sans Golf, sans Golfer, and&mdash;sans End!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img29.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">ALIKE for those who for TO-DAY prepare,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And those who after some TO-MORROW stare,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">A Keeper from the Links of Darkness cries</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img30.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHY, all the Toms and Jamies who discuss&#8217;d</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Of the True Art so wisely&mdash;they are thrust</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Like foolish prophets forth; their Words to Scorn</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Are scatter&#8217;d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;">
+<img src="images/img31.jpg" width="293" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">MYSELF when young did eagerly frequent</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Jamie and His, and heard great argument</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Of Grip and Stance and Swing; but evermore</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Found at the Exit but a Dollar spent.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img32.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WITH them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And with mine own hand sought to make it grow;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And this was all the Harvest that I reap&#8217;d&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&ldquo;You hold it This Way, and you swing it So.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img33.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">PATIENT I fared to many a sacred Spot,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Ev&#8217;n at the Shrine of Andrew cast my lot,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And many a Knot unravel&#8217;d by the Road;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">But not, alas! of Golf the Master-knot.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img34.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THERE was a Green for which I found no Tee,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And a blind Bunker which I might not see:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Out of the distant Dark a Voice cries &ldquo;Fore!&rdquo;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And then&mdash;and then no more of Thee and Me.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img35.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AS then the Sparrow for his morning Crumb,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Do thou each Morrow to the First Tee come,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And play thy quiet Round, till crusty Age</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Condemn thee to a hopeless Dufferdom.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img36.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">PERPLEXT no more with Where or How or Why,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Thy easy fingers to the Shaft apply,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Content to send away a fair straight Ball,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Though follow&#8217;d earthward by the naked Eye.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 347px;">
+<img src="images/img37.jpg" width="347" height="600" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND if the Ball you drive, the Shaft you press,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">End in what all begins and ends in&mdash;Yes;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Thank Heav&#8217;n you play <span class="smcap">To-day</span> as <span class="smcap">Yesterday</span></span><br />
+<span class="poem">You play&#8217;d&mdash;<span class="smcap">To-morrow</span> you shall not do less.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img38.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">GLAD if the Master of the Handicap</span><br />
+<span class="poem">At last shall find you come without Mishap,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Though without Glory, to turn in the Card</span><br />
+<span class="poem">He has expected of your sort of Chap.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img39.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHAT though a Fluke should fling your Class aside,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And Best Gross be your momentary pride:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Are you a Golfer more than when last week</span><br />
+<span class="poem">You did <span class="smcap">Your</span> best, and barely saved your Hide?</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img40.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">&#8217;TIS like a private Bar where for a Day</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Innumerable Rickies come your way,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Happy&mdash;but on the morrow happier far</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Had there been less to drink and more to pay.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;">
+<img src="images/img41.jpg" width="293" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND fear not lest the Fair Green after your</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Ill-luck and mine should yield Bad Lies no more;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">One or two Others may fare ill as you:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Nay, even three, or maybe&mdash;maybe four.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img42.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHEN you and I our final Match have play&#8217;d,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Think not the ever-springing Green shall fade;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Which of our Coming and Departure heeds</span><br />
+<span class="poem">As Caddies heed the Bag,&mdash;their Quarter paid.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img43.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XXXIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">A MOMENT&#8217;S Flight&mdash;a momentary Flick</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Of Being from the Providential Stick,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And Lo!&mdash;the phantom human Sphere has reacht</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The Nothing it set out from&mdash;Ah, be quick!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img44.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XL</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem">WOULD you that Fillip of Existence spend</span><br />
+<span class="poem">About THE SECRET&mdash;quick about it, Friend!</span><br />
+ <span class="poem">A Hair perhaps divides the False and True,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And upon what, prithee, does this Golf depend?</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img45.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">A HAIR perhaps divides the False and True,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Yes, and a single Jamie were the Clue&mdash;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Could you but find him&mdash;to the Championship,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And peradventure to the Champion too.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img46.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND yet what matter who a Moment reigns?</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&#8217;Tis not for such a Toy you take your pains;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">To play the steady, simple, honest Game;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That is the Joy and Credit that remains.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img47.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">BEHIND the uprisen Turf fair in the Ditch,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">To risk the Overhang, or play back&mdash;which</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">To do? Ah, Brother, let the Gallery go:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Than tear the Web, better to drop a Stitch!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img48.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">TWO&mdash;Three&mdash;aye, better Golf we all have seen&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">But&mdash;bravo! Four&mdash;a sweet Approach and Clean;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Steady, you still may well go down in Five:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">There are no Hazards on the Putting-Green.</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img49.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WASTE not your Hour, nor try in vain to fix</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The How and Why&mdash;some wondrous Brew to mix;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Better be jocund with a calm Two-score</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Than sadden for a bitter Thirty-six.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img50.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">STRANGE, is it not?&mdash;that of the myriads who</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Into the Out-of-Bounds have late play&#8217;d through,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Not one returns to tell us of the Stroke</span><br />
+<span class="poem">To guarantee the shortest Hole in Two.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img51.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THE Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">But Here or There as strikes the Player goes,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And ye who play behold the Ball fly clean,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Or roll a Rod; but why? Who knows? Who knows?</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img52.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THE swinging Brassie strikes; and, having struck,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Moves on: nor all your Wit or future Luck</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Shall lure it back to cancel half a Stroke,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Nor from the Card a single Seven pluck.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img53.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>XLIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">NO hope by Club or Ball to win the Prize:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The batter&#8217;d, blacken&#8217;d Re-made sweetly flies,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Swept cleanly from the Tee; this is the truth:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Nine-tenths is Skill, and all the rest is Lies.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img54.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>L</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND that inverted Ball they call the High&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">By which the Duffer thinks to live or die,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Lift not your hands to <span class="smcap">It</span> for help, for it</span><br />
+<span class="poem">As impotently froths as you or I.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img55.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">OF Earth&#8217;s first Clay was the last Golfer framed,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And that last Golfer&#8217;s latest Score was named</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">When the first Morning of Creation sang</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The Dirge of every Duffer Golf has claimed.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img56.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">YESTERDAY this Day&#8217;s Foozling did prepare;</span><br />
+<span class="poem"><span class="smcap">To-morrow&#8217;s</span> Slicing will not yield to Prayer:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Play! for you know not whence you came, nor why:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Play! for you know not why you go, nor where.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img57.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">I TELL you this&mdash;When, after youth was past,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">A kindly Heav&#8217;n gave me to Golf at last;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">No Freedom but I gladly barter&#8217;d for</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The satisfying Bond that holds me fast.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img58.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND this I know: there is a Charm about</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The quiet State of Golf, tho&#8217; fools may flout,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">That with its magic has unlock&#8217;d the Door</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Of Happiness they only howl without.</span></p>
+
+<p class="center1">&nbsp;* * * *</p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img59.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AS under cover of departing Day</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Slinks the defeated Duffer on his way,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Once more within the Maker&#8217;s house alone</span><br />
+<span class="poem">I stood, surrounded by the Tools of Play.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;">
+<img src="images/img60.jpg" width="293" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">CLUBS of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That stood along the floor and by the wall;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And some old batter&#8217;d Veterans were; and some</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Had swung perhaps, but never driv&#8217;n at all.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img61.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">SAID one among them&mdash;&ldquo;Surely not for naught</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Tom Morris fashion&#8217;d me with anxious thought,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Has not my Form won many a Match and Cup?</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And yet&mdash;and yet&mdash;I am no longer bought.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img62.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THEN said a Second&mdash;&ldquo;Hear the Codger croak!</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Sure he would make of Golf an ancient Joke;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">But Me&mdash;just think! a modern Willie Park,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">My fickle Owner cannot sell nor soak!&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img63.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AFTER a momentary silence spake</span><br />
+<span class="poem">A Brassie of a more ungainly make&mdash;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">&ldquo;They sneer at me for leaning all awry:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Well, then, I ask who won the last Sweepstake?&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img64.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHEREAT some one of the loquacious Lot,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">I think a putting Niblick, or if not,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">A driving Putter, or a goose-neck&#8217;d Cleek&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&ldquo;Pray, what is Golf then,&mdash;and the Golfer what?&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img65.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">&ldquo;WHY,&rdquo; said another, &ldquo;Some there are who say</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That Golf is but a Game that Golfers play,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And some that Life is but a mighty Green,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And Golf the Art to use it day by day.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img66.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">&ldquo;WELL,&rdquo; murmur&#8217;d one, &ldquo;let whoso make or buy,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">All in one Pickle we&mdash;like as we lie:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">For let the right Good-Fellow come along,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">We all may lay the Ball dead by and by.&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img67.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">SO one and one and one I heard them speak:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">&ldquo;Ah, Friends,&rdquo; said I, &ldquo;&#8217;tis not a Make we seek,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">A Duffer arm&#8217;d with all the Clubs there be&mdash;</span><br />
+<span class="poem">What is he to a Player with a Cleek?&rdquo;</span></p>
+
+<p class="center1">&nbsp;* * * *</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img68.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">LATELY, agape beside the door of Fame,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Sudden a Touch upon my shoulder came,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And thro&#8217; the Dusk an Angel Shape held out</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The greater Guerdon; and it was&mdash;the Game!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img69.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THE Game that can with Logic absolute</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The Dronings of the Soberheads confute,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Silence the scoffing ones, and in a trice</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Life&#8217;s leaden metal into Gold transmute.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img70.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">INDEED, the brave Game I have loved so well</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Has little taught me how to buy or sell;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Has pawn&#8217;d my Greatness for an Hour of Ease,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And barter&#8217;d cold Cash for&mdash;a Miracle.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 291px;">
+<img src="images/img71.jpg" width="291" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">INDEED, indeed, Repentance oft before</span><br />
+<span class="poem">I swore&mdash;but it was Winter when I swore,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And then and then came Spring, and Club-in-hand</span><br />
+<span class="poem">I hasten&#8217;d forth for one Round&mdash;one Round more.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/img72.jpg" width="287" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">BUT much as Golf has play&#8217;d the Infidel,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And robb&#8217;d me of my worldly Profit&mdash;Well,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">I often wonder what the Grubbers earn</span><br />
+<span class="poem">One half so precious as the Joy they sell.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img73.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHAT! for a senseless Bank-Account to wreak</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Their manly Strength on Ledgers, till too weak</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">To swing a club?&mdash;So Caddies calmly tread</span><br />
+<span class="poem">In Mire the Ball Heav&#8217;n sent them here to seek.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img74.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WHAT! as a poor dull Drudge to waste the Force</span><br />
+<span class="poem">That might have made a Golfer, till the Source</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Of Golf be dried&mdash;and Life grow all too brief</span><br />
+<span class="poem">To top a Ball around the Ladies&#8217; Course!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img75.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">YET, ah, that Golf should vanish with the green!</span><br />
+<span class="poem">What noble matches Winter might have seen;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And in Old Age what glorious Hazards foil&#8217;d,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">What Zest of painful Pleasures might have been!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/img76.jpg" width="288" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WOULD but the dim Face of old Winter yield</span><br />
+<span class="poem">One glimpse of green, like Youth to Age reveal&#8217;d,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Thro&#8217; which once more the failing Limbs might spring</span><br />
+<span class="poem">As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img77.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AH! with the Green my fading life provide,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Some ancient golfing Crony by my side:</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Content to play one Round, or, meeker still,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">To mix a gentle Foursome satisfied.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;">
+<img src="images/img78.jpg" width="285" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXIV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">THAT even the wavering Remnant of the Swing</span><br />
+<span class="poem">May bear some witness to my virtuous Spring,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And leave no True-believer passing-by</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Unedified by its Admonishing.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img79.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXV</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">WOULD but the god of Golfers ere too late</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Arrest the sure-advancing step of Fate,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">What matter if we play the Odd or Like?</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Or&mdash;if we play&mdash;hole out in Four or Eight?</span></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;">
+<img src="images/img80.jpg" width="292" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXVI</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AH, let the Honor go to Fate, and let</span><br />
+<span class="poem">All difficulties by that Crack be met;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">The Duffer still may win a Half or two,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">Content while Fate is only Dormie yet.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/img81.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXVII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">OR if ev&#8217;n this be taken, you and I</span><br />
+<span class="poem">May still fare onward calmly, honestly,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">Nor care how many Down the Record stand:</span><br />
+<span class="poem">The Match is over&mdash;Let us play the Bye!</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img82.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXVIII</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">YON rising Moon that leads us Home again,</span><br />
+<span class="poem">How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">How oft hereafter rising wait for us</span><br />
+<span class="poem">At this same Turning&mdash;and for <em>One</em> in vain.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/img83.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="image" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>LXXIX</h3>
+
+ <p><span class="poem1">AND when, like her, my Golfer, I have been</span><br />
+<span class="poem">And am no more above the pleasant Green,</span><br />
+ <span class="poem1">And you in your mild Journey pass the Hole</span><br />
+<span class="poem">I made in One&mdash;ah! pay my Forfeit then!</span></p>
+
+<p class="center">TAM&Aacute;M</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. W. Boynton
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Golfer's Rubaiyat
+
+Author: H. W. Boynton
+
+Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24018]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Edwards, Anne Storer and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
+file was produced from images generously made available
+by The Internet Archive)
+
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note: Each verse is contained
+within a full-page illustration, so the
+illustration tags within the text have
+been removed to avoid congestion.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubaiyat
+
+
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubaiyat
+
+
+
+
+ The
+ Golfer's
+ Rubaiyat
+
+ by
+ H.W. Boynton
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ Herbert S. Stone
+ & Company
+
+ Chicago 1901
+
+
+
+
+ Copyright, 1901,
+ by Herbert S. Stone & Co.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+The Golfer's Rubaiyat
+
+
+I
+
+ WAKE! for the sun has driven in equal flight
+The stars before him from the Tee of Night,
+ And holed them every one without a Miss,
+Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft of Light.
+
+
+II
+
+ WAKE, Loiterer! for already Dawn is seen
+With her red marker on the eastern Green,
+ And summons all her Little Ones to change
+A joyous Three for every sad Thirteen.
+
+
+III
+
+ AND as the Cock crew, those who stood before
+The first Tee murmur'd: "Just this chance to score,
+ You know how little while we have to play,
+And, once departed, may return no more."
+
+
+IV
+
+ NOW the fresh Year, reviving old Desires,
+The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
+ Pores on this Club and That with anxious eye,
+And dreams of Rounds beyond the Rounds of Liars.
+
+
+V
+
+ CAMPBELL indeed is past with all his Fame,
+And old Tom Morris now is but a name;
+ But many a Jamie by the Bunker blows,
+And many a Willie rules us, just the same.
+
+
+VI
+
+ A THOUSAND lips are lockt; but still in hoar
+High-balling Andrew's Shrine, with "Fore, fore, fore!
+ Oh, fore!" the Golfer to the Duffer cries,
+That reddened cheek of his to redden more.
+
+
+VII
+
+ COME, choose your Ball, and in the fire of Spring
+Your Red Coat, and your wooden Putter fling;
+ The Club of Time has but a little while
+To waggle, and the Club is on the swing.
+
+
+VII
+
+ WHETHER at Musselburgh or Shinnecock,
+In motley Hose or humbler motley Sock,
+ The Cup of Life is ebbing Drop by Drop,
+Whether the Cup be filled with Scotch or Bock.
+
+
+IX
+
+ EACH Morn a thousand Matches brings, you say;
+Yes, but who plays the Match of Yesterday?
+ And this first Summer month of opening Greens
+Shall take this Championship and That away.
+
+
+X
+
+ WELL, let it take them! What have we to do
+With Championships, or, Champion, with you?
+ Let This or Other struggle as he will,
+For him alone the Strife--for him to rue.
+
+
+XI
+
+ WITH me along the strip of sandy Down
+That just divides the Desert from the sown,
+ Where name of Shop and Study is forgot,--
+And Peace to Croker on his golden Throne!
+
+
+XII
+
+ A BAG of Clubs, a Silver-Town or two,
+A Flask of Scotch, a Pipe of Shag--and Thou
+ Beside me caddying in the Wilderness--
+Ah, Wilderness were Paradise enow.
+
+
+XIII
+
+ SOME for the weekly Handicap; and some
+Sigh for a greater Championship to come:
+ Ah, play the Match, and let the Medal go,
+Nor heed old Bogey with his wretched Sum.
+
+
+XIV
+
+ LOOK to the blowing Rows about us--"Lo,
+"Strolling," they say, "over the course we go,
+ "And here or there we lightly flick the Ball,
+"Turn, and the Trick is done--in So-and-so."
+
+
+XV
+
+ BUT those who keep their Cards and turn them in,
+And those who weekly Handicaps may win,
+ Alike to no such aureate Fame are brought,
+As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
+
+
+XVI
+
+ THE shining Cup men set their hearts upon
+Is lost to them--or won them; and anon,
+ Like a good Three set in a bald Three-score,
+That Glory gleams a moment--and is gone.
+
+
+XVII
+
+ THINK, in this worn, forlorn old Field of Play,
+Whose Green-keepers in turn are Night and Day,
+ How Champion after Champion with his Pomp
+Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
+
+
+XVIII
+
+ THEY say the Female and the Duffer strut
+On sacred Greens where Morris used to putt;
+ Himself a natural Hazard now, alas!
+That nice Hand quiet now, that great Eye shut.
+
+
+XIX
+
+ I SOMETIMES think that never springs so green
+The Turf as where some Good Fellow has been,
+ And every emerald Stretch the Fair Green shows
+His kindly Tread has known, his sure Play seen.
+
+
+XX
+
+ AND this reviving Herb whose tender green
+Muffles the fair white Sphere o'er which we lean,
+ Ah, curse it gently, for here Jamie once--
+Great Jamie--lay, and fetch'd a bad Thirteen.
+
+
+XXI
+
+ AH, my Beloved, play the Round that offers
+TO-DAY some joy, whate'er To-morrow suffers:
+ To-morrow!--why, to-morrow I may be
+Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Duffers.
+
+
+XXII
+
+ AND some we loved, the feeblest with a Club,
+Ordain'd to sclaff, to foozle, and to flub,
+ Have turned in Cards a Round or two before,
+And played that final Green without a Rub.
+
+
+XXIII
+
+ AND we that now make merry on the Green
+They left, and Summer dresses in new sheen,
+ Ourselves must we beneath the springing Turf
+Add our Ell to the Bunker of Has-been.
+
+
+XXIV
+
+ AH, make the most of what we yet may spend
+Before we too into the Dust descend;
+ Dust into dust, and under Dust to lie,
+Sans Breath, sans Golf, sans Golfer, and--sans End!
+
+
+XXV
+
+ ALIKE for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
+And those who after some TO-MORROW stare,
+ A Keeper from the Links of Darkness cries
+Fools, your Reward is neither Here nor There.
+
+
+XXVI
+
+ WHY, all the Toms and Jamies who discuss'd
+Of the True Art so wisely--they are thrust
+ Like foolish prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
+Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
+
+
+XXVII
+
+ MYSELF when young did eagerly frequent
+Jamie and His, and heard great argument
+ Of Grip and Stance and Swing; but evermore
+Found at the Exit but a Dollar spent.
+
+
+XXVIII
+
+ WITH them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
+And with mine own hand sought to make it grow;
+ And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd--
+"You hold it This Way, and you swing it So."
+
+
+XXIX
+
+ PATIENT I fared to many a sacred Spot,
+Ev'n at the Shrine of Andrew cast my lot,
+ And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road;
+But not, alas! of Golf the Master-knot.
+
+
+XXX
+
+ THERE was a Green for which I found no Tee,
+And a blind Bunker which I might not see:
+ Out of the distant Dark a Voice cries "Fore!"
+And then--and then no more of Thee and Me.
+
+
+XXXI
+
+ AS then the Sparrow for his morning Crumb,
+Do thou each Morrow to the First Tee come,
+ And play thy quiet Round, till crusty Age
+Condemn thee to a hopeless Dufferdom.
+
+
+XXXII
+
+ PERPLEXT no more with Where or How or Why,
+Thy easy fingers to the Shaft apply,
+ Content to send away a fair straight Ball,
+Though follow'd earthward by the naked Eye.
+
+
+XXXIII
+
+ AND if the Ball you drive, the Shaft you press,
+End in what all begins and ends in--Yes;
+ Thank Heav'n you play TO-DAY as YESTERDAY
+You play'd--TO-MORROW you shall not do less.
+
+
+XXXIV
+
+ GLAD if the Master of the Handicap
+At last shall find you come without Mishap,
+ Though without Glory, to turn in the Card
+He has expected of your sort of Chap.
+
+
+XXXV
+
+ WHAT though a Fluke should fling your Class aside,
+And Best Gross be your momentary pride:
+ Are you a Golfer more than when last week
+You did YOUR best, and barely saved your Hide?
+
+
+XXXVI
+
+ 'TIS like a private Bar where for a Day
+Innumerable Rickies come your way,
+ Happy--but on the morrow happier far
+Had there been less to drink and more to pay.
+
+
+XXXVII
+
+ AND fear not lest the Fair Green after your
+Ill-luck and mine should yield Bad Lies no more;
+ One or two Others may fare ill as you:
+Nay, even three, or maybe--maybe four.
+
+
+XXXVIII
+
+ WHEN you and I our final Match have play'd,
+Think not the ever-springing Green shall fade;
+ Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
+As Caddies heed the Bag,--their Quarter paid.
+
+
+XXXIX
+
+ A MOMENT'S Flight--a momentary Flick
+Of Being from the Providential Stick,
+ And Lo!--the phantom human Sphere has reacht
+The Nothing it set out from--Ah, be quick!
+
+
+XL
+
+ WOULD you that Fillip of Existence spend
+About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
+ A Hair perhaps divides the False and True,
+And upon what, prithee, does this Golf depend?
+
+
+XLI
+
+ A HAIR perhaps divides the False and True,
+Yes, and a single Jamie were the Clue--
+ Could you but find him--to the Championship,
+And peradventure to the Champion too.
+
+
+XLII
+
+ AND yet what matter who a Moment reigns?
+'Tis not for such a Toy you take your pains;
+ To play the steady, simple, honest Game;
+That is the Joy and Credit that remains.
+
+
+XLIII
+
+ BEHIND the uprisen Turf fair in the Ditch,
+To risk the Overhang, or play back--which
+ To do? Ah, Brother, let the Gallery go:
+Than tear the Web, better to drop a Stitch!
+
+
+XLIV
+
+ TWO--Three--aye, better Golf we all have seen--
+But--bravo! Four--a sweet Approach and Clean;
+ Steady, you still may well go down in Five:
+There are no Hazards on the Putting-Green.
+
+
+XLV
+
+ WASTE not your Hour, nor try in vain to fix
+The How and Why--some wondrous Brew to mix;
+ Better be jocund with a calm Two-score
+Than sadden for a bitter Thirty-six.
+
+
+XLVI
+
+ STRANGE, is it not?--that of the myriads who
+Into the Out-of-Bounds have late play'd through,
+ Not one returns to tell us of the Stroke
+To guarantee the shortest Hole in Two.
+
+
+XLVII
+
+ THE Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
+But Here or There as strikes the Player goes,
+ And ye who play behold the Ball fly clean,
+Or roll a Rod; but why? Who knows? Who knows?
+
+
+XLVIII
+
+ THE swinging Brassie strikes; and, having struck,
+Moves on: nor all your Wit or future Luck
+ Shall lure it back to cancel half a Stroke,
+Nor from the Card a single Seven pluck.
+
+
+XLIX
+
+ NO hope by Club or Ball to win the Prize:
+The batter'd, blacken'd Re-made sweetly flies,
+ Swept cleanly from the Tee; this is the truth:
+Nine-tenths is Skill, and all the rest is Lies.
+
+
+L
+
+ AND that inverted Ball they call the High--
+By which the Duffer thinks to live or die,
+ Lift not your hands to IT for help, for it
+As impotently froths as you or I.
+
+
+LI
+
+ OF Earth's first Clay was the last Golfer framed,
+And that last Golfer's latest Score was named
+ When the first Morning of Creation sang
+The Dirge of every Duffer Golf has claimed.
+
+
+LII
+
+ YESTERDAY this Day's Foozling did prepare;
+TO-MORROW'S Slicing will not yield to Prayer:
+ Play! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
+Play! for you know not why you go, nor where.
+
+
+LIII
+
+ I TELL you this--When, after youth was past,
+A kindly Heav'n gave me to Golf at last;
+ No Freedom but I gladly barter'd for
+The satisfying Bond that holds me fast.
+
+
+LIV
+
+ AND this I know: there is a Charm about
+The quiet State of Golf, tho' fools may flout,
+ That with its magic has unlock'd the Door
+Of Happiness they only howl without.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+LV
+
+ AS under cover of departing Day
+Slinks the defeated Duffer on his way,
+ Once more within the Maker's house alone
+I stood, surrounded by the Tools of Play.
+
+
+LVI
+
+ CLUBS of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
+That stood along the floor and by the wall;
+ And some old batter'd Veterans were; and some
+Had swung perhaps, but never driv'n at all.
+
+
+LVII
+
+ SAID one among them--"Surely not for naught
+Tom Morris fashion'd me with anxious thought,
+ Has not my Form won many a Match and Cup?
+And yet--and yet--I am no longer bought."
+
+
+LVIII
+
+ THEN said a Second--"Hear the Codger croak!
+Sure he would make of Golf an ancient Joke;
+ But Me--just think! a modern Willie Park,
+My fickle Owner cannot sell nor soak!"
+
+
+LIX
+
+ AFTER a momentary silence spake
+A Brassie of a more ungainly make--
+ "They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
+Well, then, I ask who won the last Sweepstake?"
+
+
+LX
+
+ WHEREAT some one of the loquacious Lot,
+I think a putting Niblick, or if not,
+ A driving Putter, or a goose-neck'd Cleek--
+"Pray, what is Golf then,--and the Golfer what?"
+
+
+LXI
+
+ "WHY," said another, "Some there are who say
+That Golf is but a Game that Golfers play,
+ And some that Life is but a mighty Green,
+And Golf the Art to use it day by day."
+
+
+LXII
+
+ "WELL," murmur'd one, "let whoso make or buy,
+All in one Pickle we--like as we lie:
+ For let the right Good-Fellow come along,
+We all may lay the Ball dead by and by."
+
+
+LXIII
+
+ SO one and one and one I heard them speak:
+"Ah, Friends," said I, "'tis not a Make we seek,
+ A Duffer arm'd with all the Clubs there be--
+What is he to a Player with a Cleek?"
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+LXIV
+
+ LATELY, agape beside the door of Fame,
+Sudden a Touch upon my shoulder came,
+ And thro' the Dusk an Angel Shape held out
+The greater Guerdon; and it was--the Game!
+
+
+LXV
+
+ THE Game that can with Logic absolute
+The Dronings of the Soberheads confute,
+ Silence the scoffing ones, and in a trice
+Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.
+
+
+LXVI
+
+ INDEED, the brave Game I have loved so well
+Has little taught me how to buy or sell;
+ Has pawn'd my Greatness for an Hour of Ease,
+And barter'd cold Cash for--a Miracle.
+
+
+LXVII
+
+ INDEED, indeed, Repentance oft before
+I swore--but it was Winter when I swore,
+ And then and then came Spring, and Club-in-hand
+I hasten'd forth for one Round--one Round more.
+
+
+LXVIII
+
+ BUT much as Golf has play'd the Infidel,
+And robb'd me of my worldly Profit--Well,
+ I often wonder what the Grubbers earn
+One half so precious as the Joy they sell.
+
+
+LXIX
+
+ WHAT! for a senseless Bank-Account to wreak
+Their manly Strength on Ledgers, till too weak
+ To swing a club?--So Caddies calmly tread
+In Mire the Ball Heav'n sent them here to seek.
+
+
+LXX
+
+ WHAT! as a poor dull Drudge to waste the Force
+That might have made a Golfer, till the Source
+ Of Golf be dried--and Life grow all too brief
+To top a Ball around the Ladies' Course!
+
+
+LXXI
+
+ YET, ah, that Golf should vanish with the green!
+What noble matches Winter might have seen;
+ And in Old Age what glorious Hazards foil'd,
+What Zest of painful Pleasures might have been!
+
+
+LXXII
+
+ WOULD but the dim Face of old Winter yield
+One glimpse of green, like Youth to Age reveal'd,
+ Thro' which once more the failing Limbs might spring
+As springs the trampled Herbage of the Field.
+
+
+LXXIII
+
+ AH! with the Green my fading life provide,
+Some ancient golfing Crony by my side:
+ Content to play one Round, or, meeker still,
+To mix a gentle Foursome satisfied.
+
+
+LXXIV
+
+ THAT even the wavering Remnant of the Swing
+May bear some witness to my virtuous Spring,
+ And leave no True-believer passing-by
+Unedified by its Admonishing.
+
+
+LXXV
+
+ WOULD but the god of Golfers ere too late
+Arrest the sure-advancing step of Fate,
+ What matter if we play the Odd or Like?
+Or--if we play--hole out in Four or Eight?
+
+
+LXXVI
+
+ AH, let the Honor go to Fate, and let
+All difficulties by that Crack be met;
+ The Duffer still may win a Half or two,
+Content while Fate is only Dormie yet.
+
+
+LXXVII
+
+ OR if ev'n this be taken, you and I
+May still fare onward calmly, honestly,
+ Nor care how many Down the Record stand:
+The Match is over--Let us play the Bye!
+
+
+LXXVIII
+
+ YON rising Moon that leads us Home again,
+How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
+ How oft hereafter rising wait for us
+At this same Turning--and for _One_ in vain.
+
+
+LXXIX
+
+ AND when, like her, my Golfer, I have been
+And am no more above the pleasant Green,
+ And you in your mild Journey pass the Hole
+I made in One--ah! pay my Forfeit then!
+
+
+TAMAM
+
+
+
+
+
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