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Title: The Golfer's Rubaiyat

Author: H. W. Boynton

Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24018]

Language: English

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The
Golfer's
Rubaiyat

[Illustration]

The
Golfer's
Rubaiyat

The
Golfer's
Rubaiyat

by
H.W. Boynton

[Illustration]

Herbert S. Stone
& Company

Chicago 1901

Copyright, 1901,
by Herbert S. Stone & Co.

[Illustration]

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The Golfer's Rubaiyat

I

WAKE! for the sun has driven in equal flight
The stars before him from the Tee of Night,
And holed them every one without a Miss,
Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft of Light.

II

WAKE, Loiterer! for already Dawn is seen
With her red marker on the eastern Green,
And summons all her Little Ones to change
A joyous Three for every sad Thirteen.

III

AND as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The first Tee murmur'd: "Just this chance to score,
You know how little while we have to play,
And, once departed, may return no more."

IV

NOW the fresh Year, reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Pores on this Club and That with anxious eye,
And dreams of Rounds beyond the Rounds of Liars.

V

CAMPBELL indeed is past with all his Fame,
And old Tom Morris now is but a name;
But many a Jamie by the Bunker blows,
And many a Willie rules us, just the same.

VI

A THOUSAND lips are lockt; but still in hoar