Thursday, June 06, 2013

A Sonnet for Jos Buttler after yesterday at Trent Bridge

Jos Buttler

Can I compare thee to a Summer Wind?

Thou art more lovely and more bold

Rough winds do shake the Kiwi calm of June

Whose summer's lease had all too short a date;
 

Sometime too bright the eye of floodlights shined

But never did your gold complexion dim

Though early doors the Albion cause declined

Your force of nature changed the innings' course. 
 

We pray your youthful summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall Trott brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When with eternal drives to time thou grow'st:

 
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

Trent Bridge still lives and this gives life to thee.

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