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WATCHFUL WAITING by WILLIAM A. PHELON

First Line: NOTHING TO DO BUT SIT AROUND--
Last Line: MUSTER THEIR CLANS IN THE SOUTH!
Subject(s): BASEBALL; LONGING; SPORTS; WAITING; WINTER;

NOTHING to do but sit around—
Nothing to do but wait,
Nothing to see in the winter-time,
But the lock on the ball-park gate!
Now is the time to gabble,
Now is the time to chin—
Now is the time when pennants
Are gathered and taken in!
Just a few weeks of chatter
(Mostly a mental drouth)
Ere the old stars and the rookies
Muster their clans in the South!



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