It looked day after the Mudville nine extremely rocky,;
The notch was to two to four, with however to the left a
Inning, in order to play.
Thus as Cooney on second died, and the same did to Burrows,
Pallor wreathed the characteristics of the sponsors of the
play.
Straggling rose little to go over and left the remainder
there,
With this hope, which rises eternal within the human Brustes.
for they thought: " if only Casey whack to received could,
"
they would set even cash now, with Casey at the blow.
But Flynn preceded Casey and likewise thus did Blake,
And the former was pudd'n and the latter was a falsification.
Thus on this struck quantity a deathlikesilence sat;
For there seemed however few probability of Casey arriving at
the blow.
But Flynn left the drive " single, " to wonderment from all.
And the much-despised Blakey " tore the cover up away from
the ball " violently,
And as the dust had raised and it saw which had occurred,
There was safe Blakey on second and a-huggin Flynn ' third.
Then of gladdened quantity one joyous Yell ascended --
It rumbled in mountaintops, it ratterte in dell;
It fastened after the slope and recoiled on the level;
For Casey powerful Casey advanced to the blow.
There were Muehelosigkeit in the way Casey, since he stepped
into his workstation,
There was pride in stocks Casey and in a smile on face Casey;
And as, reacting to the applause, it easily its hat doffed.
No other in the mass could doubt ' twas Casey at the blow ",
10 thousand eyes were on it, while it deleted its hands with
dirt,
Five thousand tongues applaudierten, when it wiped them off
on its shirt;
Then, when writhing the jug rubbed the ball into its hip,
Defiance looked in the eye Casey, a Sneer rippled/crinkled
lip Casey volatilely.
And now the leather-covered area, hurtling by air, came
And Casey was monitoring it in the arrogant grandeur there.
Close by the strong batsman the ball-unconsidered
accelerated;
" this ain't my type, " said Casey. " you fasten, " the said
Umpire.
Of banks blacken you with people, ascended there absorbed
roaring,
Like a striking of the storm moves on the asterisk and the
distant bank wavelike.
" you terminate it! terminate the Umpire! ", cried someone
on the location;
And it is not it would have terminated it had Casey probably
raised its hand.
With a smile of large Casey visage shone to the Christian
next love;
It calmed the rising thing down tumault, it let the play
continue;
It signaled to the jug, and again the Spheroid flew;
But Casey ignored it still, and that said Umpire, " impact
two ",
" fraud! ", cried maddened thousand and the echo answered "
fraud! ",
But scornful a view of Casey and of the public awed;
They saw face being to grow asterisk and to cold weather, saw
them its muscle load,
And they knew that Casey would not let the ball pass again.
The Sneer gone from the lips Casey, its teeth
zusammengeprgessen in the hate,
It pounds with cruel vengeance its blow after the disk;
And now the jug stops the ball, and now it lets it go,
And now air is broken by the strength of the impact Casey.
OH -, somewhere in this preferential country the sun is
bright shining,
The tape plays somewhere, and somewhere is internal light;
And men laugh somewhere, and children cry somewhere,
But there is no joy in Mudville: Powerful Casey fastened
out.
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer