Cricket Songs by Norman Gale — Read

In dazzling pads Bombastes went / To give the bowling Beans; / He stalked along in sweet content, / Triumphant in his 'teens. / He launched his muscle at a Slow, / But heard the timber clink; / Bombastes homeward sped and said, / 'Whatever do you think? / Bowled by a beastly lob, confound it! / Jumped in too far and hit all round it! / Easy enough to now expound it -- / Bowled by a beastly lob!'

At luncheon-time Bombastes swore, / By oaths not one, nor twain, / That he would make the fielders sore / When he went in again! / A second time the hero strode / With Allsopp in his head; / Bombastes missed the first; he cursed / Consumedly, and said -- / 'Bowled by a beastly lob, confound it! / Jumped in too far and hit all round it! / Easy enough to now expound it -- / Bowled by a beastly lob!'