The Team Match Day Speech, for the benefit of Team Digby Hand
By Hap Rocketto
If we are mark’d for defeat, we are enow
To do Digby Hand loss; and if to win,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
That he which hath no stomach to this match,
Let him depart; his passport shall be drawn,
And NRA Award Points for convoy put into his purse:
We would not shoot in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to shoot with us.
This day is called Team Match Day:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Digby Hand.
He that shall see day, and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Team Match Day:’
Then will he open the match bulletin and point to his name.
And say ‘These scores I shot on Team Match Day.’
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages
What Xs he shot that day: then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Adams the Coach, Glenn and Holmes, Graf and Hoskins,
Remaly and Doerschler, Carpenter, Lynn, and the Brothers Rocketto
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