 There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But...  New Outlook - Page 5691907Full view - About this book
 | Alice Meynell - Children's poetry - 1923 - 260 pages
...match to win— A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the match to win. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder spoke— " Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! " The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - Readers - 1924 - 564 pages
...match to w!n — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...captain's hand on his shoulder smote: "Play up ! play up ! and play the game !" The sand of the desert is sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke:... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares : The...hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Cou and play the game!" The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1924 - 504 pages
...Henry Newbolt, whose words are so full of the true ring that we may be permitted to quote them. ' It's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up I play up 1 and play the game ! " ' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of... | |
 | English literature - 1924 - 486 pages
...selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up 1 play up 1 and play the game 1 " ' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke ; — The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1924 - 1232 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's flame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — "Play up! play up! and play the game!" The... | |
 | Charles Lewis Hind - American poetry - 1925 - 186 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish...hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up ! play up 1 and play the game." A friend said "Of course you will put in Kipling's //? " I replied, "Of course... | |
 | Henry Neumann - American literature - 1926 - 272 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it 's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish...Captain's hand on his shoulder smote : "Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! " The sand of the desert is sodden red — Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - American literature - 1927 - 712 pages
...match to win — , A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat Or the selfish...Captain's hand on his shoulder smote; "Play up! Play up! And play the game!" 2 The sand of the desert is sodden red — Red with the wreck of a square that... | |
 | William G. Bate, Eliza Ann Wilson - Vocational guidance - 1926 - 184 pages
...match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in, And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope for a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote; "Play up! Play up! and play the... | |
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