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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) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="box"> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;"> +<img src="images/imgcover.jpg" width="296" height="500" alt="Cover" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/img2.jpg" width="370" height="292" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/img3.jpg" width="294" height="500" alt="title page" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> +<img src="images/img4.jpg" width="360" height="400" alt="copyright" title="" /> +</div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p><hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 290px;"> +<img src="images/img5.jpg" width="290" height="500" alt="image" title="" /> +</div> + + +<h2>The Golfer’s Rubáiyát</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’d: “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.”</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’s Shrine, with “Fore, fore, fore!</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Oh, fore!” 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—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,—</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—and Thou</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Beside me caddying in the Wilderness—</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—“Lo,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">“Strolling,” they say, “over the course we go,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">“And here or there we lightly flick the Ball,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">“Turn, and the Trick is done—in So-and-so.”</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—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—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’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’er which we lean,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Ah, curse it gently, for here Jamie once—</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Great Jamie—lay, and fetch’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 Belovéd, play the Round that offers</span><br /> +<span class="poem">TO-DAY some joy, whate’er To-morrow suffers:</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">To-morrow!—why, to-morrow I may be</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’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’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—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’d</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Of the True Art so wisely—they are thrust</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Like foolish prophets forth; their Words to Scorn</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Are scatter’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’d—</span><br /> +<span class="poem">“You hold it This Way, and you swing it So.”</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’n at the Shrine of Andrew cast my lot,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">And many a Knot unravel’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 “Fore!”</span><br /> +<span class="poem">And then—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’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—Yes;</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Thank Heav’n you play <span class="smcap">To-day</span> as <span class="smcap">Yesterday</span></span><br /> +<span class="poem">You play’d—<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">’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—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—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’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,—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’S Flight—a momentary Flick</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Of Being from the Providential Stick,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">And Lo!—the phantom human Sphere has reacht</span><br /> +<span class="poem">The Nothing it set out from—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—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—</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Could you but find him—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">’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—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—Three—aye, better Golf we all have seen—</span><br /> +<span class="poem">But—bravo! Four—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—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?—that of the myriads who</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Into the Out-of-Bounds have late play’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’d, blacken’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—</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’s first Clay was the last Golfer framed,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">And that last Golfer’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’s Foozling did prepare;</span><br /> +<span class="poem"><span class="smcap">To-morrow’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—When, after youth was past,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">A kindly Heav’n gave me to Golf at last;</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">No Freedom but I gladly barter’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’ fools may flout,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">That with its magic has unlock’d the Door</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Of Happiness they only howl without.</span></p> + +<p class="center1"> * * * *</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’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’d Veterans were; and some</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Had swung perhaps, but never driv’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—“Surely not for naught</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Tom Morris fashion’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—and yet—I am no longer bought.”</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—“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—just think! a modern Willie Park,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">My fickle Owner cannot sell nor soak!”</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—</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">“They sneer at me for leaning all awry:</span><br /> +<span class="poem">Well, then, I ask who won the last Sweepstake?”</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’d Cleek—</span><br /> +<span class="poem">“Pray, what is Golf then,—and the Golfer what?”</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">“WHY,” said another, “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.”</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">“WELL,” murmur’d one, “let whoso make or buy,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">All in one Pickle we—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.”</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">“Ah, Friends,” said I, “’tis not a Make we seek,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">A Duffer arm’d with all the Clubs there be—</span><br /> +<span class="poem">What is he to a Player with a Cleek?”</span></p> + +<p class="center1"> * * * *</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’ the Dusk an Angel Shape held out</span><br /> +<span class="poem">The greater Guerdon; and it was—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’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’d my Greatness for an Hour of Ease,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">And barter’d cold Cash for—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—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’d forth for one Round—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’d the Infidel,</span><br /> +<span class="poem">And robb’d me of my worldly Profit—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?—So Caddies calmly tread</span><br /> +<span class="poem">In Mire the Ball Heav’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—and Life grow all too brief</span><br /> +<span class="poem">To top a Ball around the Ladies’ 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’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’d,</span><br /> + <span class="poem1">Thro’ 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—if we play—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’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—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—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—ah! pay my Forfeit then!</span></p> + +<p class="center">TAMÁM</p> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. 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