The Tradition
Who, that has seen it, does not love the glide, r The pliant work of wrists in sympathy, • The lightning turn, that flicks the hall aside. And bids us taste the game's sweet luxury * ) A An hour of Ranji . . . I can close these eyes And watch again those moments charmed S away; Glad am 1, though the brilliant vision dies, \ To look upon another of his clay.
G. D. Martineau, in “The Cricketer.”
1 cannot think the nephew dares as much (Only one Ranji. surely , could exist). Yet there is something of the elder's touch — A lithe familiar stirring of the icrist. Li Applause rolls out. as from the surge of surf, p A form is moving with a supple stride. A broader frame, that trod the same good turf, Surveys , content, the march of time and tid^e, (Who. that has seen it, does not love the glide?)
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 7
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150The Tradition Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 7
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