Australian Cricket Team in England in 1888

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“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
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“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”
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