Cricket Poem by Sir Henry Newbold

[theep]

I would be much obliged if someone will help me reconstruct a poem
about cricket I had learnt in my early youth. I have forgotten
most of it, but the few words I remember are as follows :

Vita Lampada by Sir Henry Newbold

.. ten to make and the match to win
a bumpy pitch and a bouncing ball
... fading light ... and the last man in
.. and the captain's hand on his shoulder [strokes?]
... play up play up and play the game ..
.. it is neither for [?] nor the ribboned coat ...

Well that's all I remember. Does someone know the rest?

Pratheep
th...@nile.stanford.edu

[T.S. Reddy]

In article <@sierra.STANFORD.EDU>, th...@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (theep) writes:
>
> I would be much obliged if someone will help me reconstruct a poem
> about cricket I had learnt in my early youth. I have forgotten
> most of it, but the few words I remember are as follows :
>
> Vita Lampada by Sir Henry Newbold
>
> .. ten to make and the match to win

...
> Pratheep
> th...@nile.stanford.edu

Here's as much as I can remember (there are a number of mistakes, I'm sure):

There's a breathless hush on the close tonight,
Ten to make and the match to win
A bumpy pitch and a fading light,
An hour of play and the last man in.
But it's not for the sake of the ribboned coat
Or the selfish hope of the season's fame
But the 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 the square that broke
The gatling's jammed and the colonel dead
...(line I can't remember)
The river of death has brimmed it's banks
And England's far to honor a name
But the voice of a schoolboy rallied the ranks
Play up, play up and play the game.

There's one more verse here, most of which I don't remember:
...
...
This they all with a joyous mind
Bear through life like a torch in flame
And falling fling to the host behind
Play up, play up and play the game.

--
T.S.Reddy
e-mail: re...@mips.com

[T.S. Reddy]

In article <@sierra.STANFORD.EDU>, th...@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (theep) writes:
>

> I would be much obliged if someone will help me reconstruct a poem
> about cricket I had learnt in my early youth. I have forgotten
> most of it, but the few words I remember are as follows :
>
> Vita Lampada by Sir Henry Newbold
>
> .. ten to make and the match to win

...
> Pratheep
> th...@nile.stanford.edu

Here's as much as I can remember (there are a number of mistakes, I'm sure):

There's a breathless hush on the close tonight,

Ten to make and the match to win
A bumping pitch and a fading light,

[SD...@liverpool.ac.uk]

the line in the second verse you cann't remember is -
And the regiment blind with/by dust and smoke

I cann't remember the last verse either
Richard Seaby

[IDID...@esoc.bitnet]

>I would be much obliged if someone will help me reconstruct a poem
>about cricket I had learnt in my early youth. I have forgotten
>most of it, but the few words I remember are as follows :
>
> Vita Lampada by Sir Henry Newbold
>

>.. various remembrances......

well, I also learnt this in my early youth, and this is what I remember...

There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,
Ten to make and the match to win,
A bouncing pitch, and a blinding light,
[something something something] and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a gilded coat,
And it's not for the sake of a season's fame,
But his captain's hand upon his shoulder smote,
Play up, play up, and play the game.

Anyone else got any ideas??

Didds. ESOC 6100 Darmstadt West Germany.

[Paul Coddington]

I have two questions about Australian Sheffield Shield cricket.
Firstly, does anyone know if Brayshaw, who was in the WA lineup
in Tim's report of the WA v SA game (thanks for the reports, Tim),
is the son of Ian Brayshaw, who used to be a good all-rounder
for WA, once took 10 wickets in an innings in a Shield game, and
was also a commentator and co-author of a biography of Dennis
Lillee?

Also, are Steve and Mark Waugh identical twins? If so, how do the
scorers know which one is about to bowl? And if one of them gets
injured or drunk or something, what's to stop the other from
surreptitiously batting twice? Just curious.

Paul Coddington

[Friendless]

In <1990Nov20....@rodan.acs.syr.edu> pa...@nova.npac.syr.edu (Paul Coddington) writes:
>Also, are Steve and Mark Waugh identical twins? If so, how do the
>scorers know which one is about to bowl? And if one of them gets
>injured or drunk or something, what's to stop the other from
>surreptitiously batting twice? Just curious.

I'm not sure whether they're technically identical, but in practice they're
not. People watching TV can tell them apart from behind and so forth. Both of
them have been picked in Australia's one day team, as have O'Donnell and Peter
Taylor (spinner/all rounder). Merv Hughes, Greg Matthews, and Mark Taylor have
been omitted from the team. I suspect Taylor is out due to an injured small
finger on his left hand, and besides he has never excelled at one day
cricket.

Friendless
"Here we go here we go here we go...."