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"There will now be a 20-minute interval for tea," the announcer has just helpfully informed the spectators who were no doubt baffled by the retreat of the players and umpires to the pavilion with 32 overs to be bowled in the day.
Tea: Derbyshire 171 for 7 (64 overs). Lungley 26, Clare 23.
Another lively spell from Mondeki went unrewarded. Salisbury had a good lbw shout against Clare turned down from the last ball before tea.
John Clare, by the way, was a magnificent poet. Has a finer work ever been composed than "Written in Northampton County Asylum"?
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Is it the only ground that we have gained promotion in champo
You're right. A lovely piece.
I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
I am the self-consumer of my woes;
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host,
Shadows of life, whose very soul is lost.
And yet I am — I live — though I am toss’d
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dream,
Where there is neither sense of life, nor joys,
But the huge shipwreck of my own esteem
And all that’s dear. Even those I loved the best
Are strange—nay, they are stranger than the rest.
I long for scenes where man has never trod—
For scenes where woman never smiled or wept—
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Full of high thoughts, unborn. So let me lie,—
The grass below; above, the vaulted sky.
Is it that this is the only ground that Warwickshire gained promotion in the Champo