<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Mean to Say</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We mean to say, it never has been granted<br>That anyone but England could decide,<br>In the crease or at the wicket,<br>Just exactly what was cricket<br>And, of course, I mean to say, we have our pride.<br>The great old game was, as it were, invented<br>On the playing fields of Eton, and all that,<br>And to try to steal our thunder<br>When you think we've made a blunder <br>Why, dear old bean, that's talking thro' the hat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We mean to say - the game originated<br>With us, back in the dear old top-hat days,<br>And the gentlemen who played it,<br>By their sterling methods, made it<br>A top-hole game for sportsmen - hence the phrase.<br>So, hang it all! If something 'isn't cricket'<br>It's our prerogative to say so, flat.<br>And it's cheek, you know, cool cheek,<br>When you dash in, so to speak,<br>And take the words out of our mouths like that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We mean to say, there's quite a choice of phrases<br>That you might use, if you must make a fuss.<br>Curse away of you feel hot;<br>But it's simply bally rot<br>To apply our own pet shibboleth to us!<br>There's the code, you know - our code, we would remind you.<br>We made it for ourselves, and mean to stick it.<br>And to try to knock us flat<br>With a boomerang like that <br>By gad! It isn't done! It isn't cricket!</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=358048" data-title="We Mean to Say de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="We mean to say, it never has been granted That anyone but England could decide, In the crease or at the wicket, Just exactly what was cricket And, of course, I mean to say, we have our pride. The great old game was, as it were, invented On the pla..."></div> </div> </div>

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