Dimming of the Day

Dimming of the Day The Cricket Season of 1914 Simon Sweetman Alas! Regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day Yet see how all around ‘em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune’s baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band! Ah, tell them they are men! Thomas Gray, Elegy written in a Country Churchyard