Aviso! The greenKeeper has placed tke pins; A pennon waves o'er each of 18 tins; fear the first tee the caddies congregate; Starter has taken his seat; the play begins.
A book of rules (superfluous I avow). A big of cubs, a scoring card, and thou With me,\ wilt scorn the prosy bores to. whom The Nineteenth Hole is Paradise enow.
How oft on green Gleneagles billowy breast The hopes of stoutest Champions have gone West!
How oft the "Herald" guineas—temp ing lare—Have slipped the clutching hands of golfdom's best!
George, Jock, and Joe: how vain was all' their dash umpteen niblicks—have gone smash!
Vardon and Braid have faded from the scene, And even old Omar feels Fate's biting lash!
Life is a game of golf, The starter's cal Hides anats tes up and drive the allotted Each, day by day, plays out his destined round,
all!
the end,-the last hole waits for C. Q. in "Glasgow Herald."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.