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: