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Imitated From Wordsworth

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He brought a team from Inversnaid          To play our Third Fifteen,     A man whom none of us had played          And very few had seen.     He weighed not less than eighteen stone,          And to a practised eye     He seemed as little fit to run          As he was fit to fly.     He looked so clumsy and so slow,          And made so little fuss;     But he got in behind--and oh,          The difference to us!

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