More Cricket Songs

Winter has come, and a cricketer begs his bat—his “Sweetheart”—to take a little oil before it sleeps away its beauty. By May, he promises, they’ll be out together on the pitch again.

In Norman Gale’s early-twentieth-century cricket poems, the shaven green lies beneath a “big blue weather,” where friends play, old spectators remember, and every ball can test a player’s nerve. Gale gives the game a chorus of comic, affectionate voices: a tutor dreams of escaping his lessons for the turf, a batsman marvels at a bowler’s deadly length, and Uncle Bob fears a nation growing soft as cricket gives way to other amusements. But time catches even the keenest players, and defeat comes to every side. What solace remains when the bat must pass to younger hands?

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