THE CRY OF THE CITY CHILDREN.
(For Playing Fields.)
[A conference of delegates of various Athletic Clubs was held on March 4, in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, for the purpose of considering the necessity for the further provision of Playing fields for the people of the Metropolis.]
Would you see Town Children playing, O my brothers,
With their bats and leathern spheres?
They are herding where the slum-reek fumes and smothers,
And that isn't play, one fears.
The young rustics bat in verdant meadows,
The young swells are "scrummaging" out west;
They are forming future Graces, Stoddarts, Hadows;