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Astronomers, working like niggers, / Neck-deep in morasses of figures, / From Cricketing vainly would wean us / With diagrams, even of Venus.
We rather would watch a good bowler / Than Bears, be they little or Polar; / And bar, though of masculine genus, / Wise talk on the Transit of Venus.