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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALL-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: This week it's got so warm that I have been
Last Line: Unless I get first innin's at the bat!
Subject(s): Balls; Children; Play; Childhood
First Line: This week it's got so warm that I have been
Last Line: Unless I get first innin's at the bat!
Subject(s): Balls; Children; Play; Childhood
This week it's got so warm that I have been
Without my overcoat for every day.
I wisht I hadn't promised to stay in
An' study for an hour, instead of play.
'Cause with the window up a little way
I smell the grass and see the buds begin.
Our clock's a lot behind time, I should say,
An' studyin' too hard'll make me thin!
I hear the boys outside begin to call—
They want me for a game of two-old-cat.
I guess they know I've got a brand new ball;—
It isn't me they want so much as that.
I bet you they can't borrow it at all
Unless I get first innin's at the bat!
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