Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1906-02-04 | Page 17 | Lunnon on the Thames

LUNNON ON THE THAMES After Bingen on the Rhine BY S T An aged English cricketer lay dying In New York His heart was very heavy hea his head was light as cork A comrade knelt beside him as his talk grew strange and wild And heard him prattle of the days da s when he hi was but a child The dying sportsman faltered as he tool took his is comrades mit And muttered Blawat me heyes old chap chal jolly well w ll a It If we can get g t three hundred runs runa well wel beat boot the Gems We boot bent em once in Lunnon old Lunnon on the Thames I saw sw a bloomin bas baU goime tva just the other doy The In Quite quit quita a strenuous way I paid four shillings for a seat and soy BOY I till tin die dieThe dIet dieThe t The I U ody game gamo was hover In h ha of ot the heye I soy SO when we played cricket that V was wa jolly well a BOlma And hit hlf hit three doys cloys th the cockneys called it It took the sixteen doys loys t to beat beet the Gems The year ws played in Lunnon old Lun Lunnon Lunnon Lunnon non on the Thames And when I watch d this Yankee I heard or seemed d to ear earThe earThe earThe The most talk you know ray my won but it was queer The chap they calleI tho the seem a bit a ald Although the tho people at nt Mm un I and said e was decayed And when one follow made a It so EO Ion long IonS that o 0 could score scores E keep hon hon me onor wat a bore Hi ran mo me bloomin oad ead hoff hof th tho me played the tho Gems V Hand beat em hout bout In Lunnon Lunon old Lun Lut Lunnon Lunnon non on oil tho the Thames rhames His comrade noted that his breath was coming hard and fast And knew the poor old fellow tellow did no not have much uch time to last So Bo ho he Jotted down in a n n mes message message message sage to his hla hI mother moth r rAnd And promised that hed take tako the news flows to his hla sister dater and his hla brother Ho He quite exactly understand just jus just Juat all nil he ha said saidA As A ha h gently smoothed his pillow and stroked his hIli tousled head But ho hI thought Jig ht mU d something about th the e Gems And Ant to kiss kin a gr Jn is Lunnen doar dM old eU Olda a Lunnon on the tha Thames Th II Reno Beno Nevada V V A