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diff --git a/24018.txt b/24018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78f33fd --- /dev/null +++ b/24018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1092 @@ +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 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by H. 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