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New Collected Rhymes

by Andrew Lang

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Brahma

After Emerson.

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,
   Or if the batsman thinks he’s bowled,
They know not, poor misguided souls,
   They too shall perish unconsoled.
I am the batsman and the bat,
I am the bowler and the ball,
The umpire, the pavilion cat,
   The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

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