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Pagination
On this day: March 7th
Random Poem of the Day
3A man whom none of us had played
4 And very few had seen.
6 And to a practised eye
7He seemed as little fit to run
8 As he was fit to fly.
9He looked so clumsy and so slow,
10 And made so little fuss;
11But he got in behind -- and oh,
12 The difference to us!
Notes
1] A respectful take-off of William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways," one of his `Lucy' poems.
Inversnaid: a hamlet on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. Back to Line
Inversnaid: a hamlet on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. Back to Line
2] our Third Fifteen: the third-best `side' or team at rugby football. Back to Line
5] eighteen stone: weighing 252 pounds. Back to Line