Hi, My mom is trying to remember the author of a poem that starts with

There's a breathless hush is the close tonight A match to win and the last man in

Each verse ends the same:

Play up play up and play the game

She says it's a poem about a schoolboy in England playing cricket in the first verse, and then in the second, he is fighting a battle in a desert somewhere. She thinks it might be Kipling. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

--Kevin

-- Kevin Donaker-Ring (info@sibling.org), June 19, 1998

Answers

you must have had an answer by now presumably?? its by Henry Newbolt I think........ about winchester college=the close theres a breathless hush in the close tonight ten to make and match to win a bumping pitch and a blinding light an hour to play and the last man in....etc

I learnt it by heart when I was 11 its great

mail me if you need it and ill try to dig it out if I have it here \ terry

-- terry (tdtdmac@aol.com), February 04, 1999.