Mid languid forms that lounge and sprawl,

And hardly deign to stop the ball,

A pattern fieldsman—sight to stir

The heart of every cricketer.

And down among the ghosts, who knows,

May flit dim forms of ghostly Pros;

(For such as throw on grass may well

Be doomed to bowl on Asphodel,

With Rhadamanthus standing there,

To see that every ball is fair.)