He puts his red coat on,

And he roams on the sandy hill;

But oh! for the touch of that golfer's hand,

That the "niblick" wields with a will.

Golf! Golf! Golf!

Where the "bunkers" vex by the sea;

But the days of Tennis and Croquet

Will never come back to me!


Virgil on Golf.—"Miscueruntque herbas et non innoxia verba." Georgics, 3, 283.