Living
O, I say, you Joe
From An Island in the Moon (c. 1784)
Living
O, I say, you Joe,
Throw us the ball!
I've a good mind to go
And leave you all.
I never saw such a bowler
To bowl the ball in a tansey.
And to clean it with my hankercher
Without saying a word.
That Bill's a foolish fellow;
He has given me a black eye.
He does not know how to handle a bat
Any more than a dog or a cat:
He has knock'd down the wicket,
And broke the stumps,
And runs without shoes to save his pumps.
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MLA
Blake, William. “O, I say, you Joe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/122/.
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Blake, William. “O, I say, you Joe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blake/122/.
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