Base-ball ballads (IA baseballballads00rice).pdf/99

Exported from Wikisource on June 25, 2024

THE SLIDE OF PAUL REVERE.

What means that cry of a man dead sore?

"Am I too late? Say, what's the score?"

And echo answered both far and near,

As the rooters shouted: "There's Paul Revere!"

O how sweetly that moon did shine

When P. Revere took the coaching line!

He woke up the grandstand from its trance

And made the bleachers get up and dance;

He joshed the British with robust shout

Until they booted the ball about.

He whooped and he clamored all over the lot,

Till the score was tied in a Gordian knot.

Now, in this part of the "Dope Recooked"

Are the facts which history overlooked—

How Paul Revere came to bat that night

And suddenly ended the long-drawn fight;

How he singled to center, and then straightaway

Dashed on to second like Harry Bay;

Kept traveling on, with the speed of a bird,

Till he whizzed like a meteor, rounding third.

"Hold back, you lobster!" but all in vain

The coachers shouted in tones of pain;

For Paul kept on with a swinging stride,

And he hit the ground when they hollered: "Slide!"

Spectacular plays may come and go

In the hurry of Time's swift ebb and flow;

But never again will there be one

Like the first American "hit and run."

And as long as the old game lasts you'll hear

Of the midnight slide of P. Revere.

95

About this digital edition

This e-book comes from the online library Wikisource. This multilingual digital library, built by volunteers, is committed to developing a free accessible collection of publications of every kind: novels, poems, magazines, letters...

We distribute our books for free, starting from works not copyrighted or published under a free license. You are free to use our e-books for any purpose (including commercial exploitation), under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported license or, at your choice, those of the GNU FDL.

Wikisource is constantly looking for new members. During the transcription and proofreading of this book, it's possible that we made some errors. You can report them at this page.

The following users contributed to this book:

- P Aculeius

Table of Contents

Title page

Base-ball ballads (IA baseballballads00rice).pdf/99

About