<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358014" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wicket Cricket Critic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the cricket critics' nagging<br>Merits stern official gagging <br>Which I doubt <br>How would critical ascetics,<br>With their prosy homiletics,<br> Shut it out?<br>And the question then arises:<br>If more cricketing surprises,<br>Such as bodyline, begin to threaten cricket,<br>And another stunt, when sprung,<br>Call for clicking of the tongue,<br> Should a cricket critic critically click it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the barrackers grow lyric<br>In a manner most satiric<br>And profane,<br>How, one ventures still to wonder,<br>May the clamor be kept under?<br>How restrain?<br>For one barbaric larrik-<br>In can do a lot of barrack-<br>In', and cause a lot of worry at the wicket.<br>But would sportsmen be abusing<br>Cricket canons in refusing<br>To supply that cricket critic with a ticket?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a critic analytic<br>Of the cricket critics' critic<br>I would say,<br>When we criticise their cricket,<br>Then the players have to stick it,<br>Come what may.<br>No specific soporific<br>May be used; for it is diffic-<br>Ult to strike a critic partly paralytic.<br>So there's nothing gained in seeking,<br>As I know; and I am speaking<br> As a critic of the cricket critic's critic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358014" data-title="The Wicket Cricket Critic de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="If the cricket critics' nagging Merits stern official gagging Which I doubt How would critical ascetics, With their prosy homiletics, Shut it out? And the question then arises: If more cricketing surprises, Such as bodyline, begin to threaten c..."></div> </div> </div>

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