This is not a cloak-room but the lounge of a fashionable London hotel.
OLYMPIC TALENT.
A topical fantasy suggested by the decay of our athletic prowess and the apparent apathy of the nation as to the fate that may befall it in the international contest of 1916.
My England, so the chance has fled!
Olympian years to come shall knot not
The athlete's guerdon for thy head
But crown the wigs of Serbs and what not.
There were who sought thy shame to shield