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The Golf Walk

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Behold, my child, this touching scene,     The golfer on the golfing-green;     Pray mark his legs uncanny swing,     The golf-walk is a gruesome thing!     See how his arms and shoulders ride     Above his legs in haughty pride,     While over bunker, hill and lawn     His feet, relentless, drag him on.     And does the man walk always so?     Nay! nay I my child, and eke, oh! no!     It is a gait he only knows     When he has on his golfing clothes.     Blame not the man for that strange stride     He could not help it if he tried;     It is his timid feet that try     From his obstreperous clothes to fly.

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