And “play” is called by the umpire skill’d.

In accents clear and loud:

And forth steps the great Verandah

With the warrior Biscoe bold,

Whose doughty feats upon these sheets

Could never enough be told.

And the Dryburgh pair so dauntless

Step forth on that humid lawn,

From which the lake-weed and the sedge

Have recently been shorn: