Though his leg was lame, he forgot that same, and he "played the game" without shrinking.
And Surrey's Shuter he did his part, and so did Notts' Gunn, Sir,
Though he might have chucked the game away when the Doctor he managed to out-run, Sir.
It was hard, you see, upon W. G. in that way to lose his wicket,
But all the same he had won the game, and had played superlative Cricket.
Forty-three to make, and forty-five minutes! But Grace and Gunn were equal to it;
And a win, with a quarter of an hour in hand, was the satisfactory sequel to it.
The Australians played a manly game, without any dawdling or shirking;
And if they didn't avoid defeat why it wasn't for want of hard working.
But the stiff-legged "Doctor" who forced the game in the most judgmatical fashion,