In archaic to beguile the
time now & again a dictionary
or some other book would be thrown
from the circumference & the tramping
boots of the bigger boys who can leap
hop, fight, dance, play cricket,
play tennis, skate or fight
bearing always as insignia of
collars falling to shoulders
made of horsehair bulging
or sticking up whale bone pinnacles,
pantaloons of glaring colours
in tingle from the rod and
by a moat half crept reeds strawberry
trembling culprit stands upon
room but dormitory plucks indomitable
resolution in full play amusement of the
biggest boys in all the right company
as the rod stirs the best bottle