The following is from the St. James's Gazette, January 14, 1881.
THE PLAYERS.
A Lawn Tennisonian Idyl.
I, who a decade past had lived recluse,
Left for awhile the dust of books and town
To share the pastimes of a country house;
And thus it chanced that I beheld a scene
That steep'd my rusted mind in wonderment.
The morn was passing fair; no vagrant cloud
Obscured the summer sun, as from the porch