History of The England Cricket Team From 1945

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—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

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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)

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—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)