LAWN TENNIS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 504, 17 January 1906, Page 8

LAWN TENNIS.

One time the mo-- ..-. ;:o uoubt. Ha't open hear:* for others; i We scorned the si.:-. 1 i-trust held out. We met.all men a_ brothers. •» T/ith years cool »i-silom en us slips '» The anror once declined; £j The laus-'h prows idle <>ti eur lip*. J Or purpose lurks behind. v Fearful to lose our little place, We dare not venture far To ueicoms others of our race. Men. of the self-same star. E.ts;er to win beyond our ranks, ••«. U*tr trample others down. And pressing o'er them murmur thanks. Our ares upon the crown. Ami yet ws bear no enmity; )g± "It's life," we sadly say; ''r We would be genial, open. fresv To all men as the day. "This armor that doth make us safe. This visor to the eye. We feel their weight, we feel tksm chafe. We fain would put them by." And when w* come to our green field. Far from th« strife of town. Forthwith In gentleness we yield And lay that armor down. y The touch of flannels to our skin. Of grass beneath our feet. v Of sun at throat may help us W.n \ Safe past the Judgment seat. TV —Arthoc BtanwoM PUr. in Atlantic, hj