Thursday, January 29, 2015

"Casey was in the Bat"

Search for nine days of extremely rocky Mudville
There are four score six inning started, and it is from here, but to play.
Then he Burrows Cooney mission when he is dead and dry.
Pallor wreathed patrons form perfectly.
Come back in a few days, or we the people, and all the straggle
I will never apparent I'll be disgraced vilaj treason eternal human jacket.
Of course, the dream of the people, they only whack so Casey minmep acquisition.
Bat come easy, Casey, and they laid them, they handle the cares of the world.
But Casey, Blake, and then all the bloc likewise precede Flynn.
And in the eyes of laertes, and pudding.
Warrior. OK, I am, like a crowd had found the King hammer foreign
But what's a little bat Casey flocked acquisition.
But this good vas yitunga, why all the wonderment, f
Blakey and despise cover this must be the window tore away from ball repair.
When, why, what they see the dust lifted.
Blakey, the second would dare to Dry, and Flynn hugging leader.
Then he cried out from the joyous, gladden His crowd well.
We know perfectly well he caught him on top of the mountain dell, and he paused, and said, he b.
He rebounded and the strike dragging hillside.
Casey, Casey mighty advanced bat.
Casey is a long, then dochha of all movement in the room, his face recognition ease.
Bad proud CELEBRANT, and smile, Casey, Casey
respond lightly and cap doffed cheers
maxupqu the crowd time to bat, you can use or a new classification Casey sees a stranger.
A thousand eyes, and his hands rubbed all deaf. Ten dirty and
wipe all the five and they applauded tongue a thousand white patient.
Now I'm going to play ball, the pitcher, and hip — then you writhe
defiance gleamed from the eyes and lips, Casey, Casey, and curled, and smile —.
And now you go through--lid then hurtle leather ball.
in those days I saw in the room--SCENE Casey haughty grandeur.
Ball speed, sturdy batsman unheed — Closed.
"I hain't style," Casey said. "He will be the first people —" the hammer". 
The umpire said, "why".
Many people mock the black bleachers from the chambers.
Distant shore or bad spirits, and the beat.
"I want to kill him! umpire dahoh"! someone shouted from the stands —
the other hand, also the third lawsuit against Casey start you, they laid him, they were afraid.
That seemed to break, on the screen a wonderful visage Casey charity smile started him.
Come, and let me see, my Lord, why you came and let me bid you welcome new tumult.
Chance and fly repeated signal cover pitcher spheroid
Casey and ignore it "two hammer", says the umpire.
Madden and echo answered fraud, a thousand, scream "fraud!"
But one scornful look awe and said Casey again.
What is she cold vision of his face had been bad. They see the muscle strain.
Casey says the third ball again, and said, I don't know, says come here too.
Smile from the lips, and hid the chance Casey, too. Idol, clench, hate mornings.
This must be so, he must be cruel, only to be violence, and that a plate, he will only bat pounds;
Now, what's ball games, as the pitcher and now move ahead,
the wind velocity, and now many Casey sharp stimulated wine.
Good job! Somewhere the sun shiny land movement favor light.
New light: always somewhere, and the schedule to play:
somewhere, and somewhere a man child cried out, and laugh out loud.
But Mudville friend or mighty movement — "Casey hammer".

{English to Klingon and back again 4X}


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"Casey at the Bat"



It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day,
The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play.
And so, when Cooney died at first, and Burrows did the same,
A pallor wreathed the features of the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go, leaving there the rest,
With that hope which springs eternal within the human breast.
For they thought if only Casey could get a whack at that,
They'd put up even money with Casey at the bat. 
But Flynn preceded Casey, and likewise so did Blake,
And the former was a pudding and the latter was a fake;
So on that stricken multitude a death-like silence sat, 
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single to the wonderment of all, 
And the much despised Blakey tore the cover off the ball, 
And when the dust had lifted and they saw what had occurred, 
There was Blakey safe on second, and Flynn a-hugging third. 
Then from the gladdened multitude went up a joyous yell,
It bounded from the mountain top and rattled in the dell,
It struck upon the hillside, and rebounded on the flat, 
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. 
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place, 
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face, 
And when responding to the cheers he lightly doffed his hat, 
No stranger in the crowd could doubt, 'twas Casey at the bat. 
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt, 
Five thousand tongues applauded as he wiped them on his shirt; 
And while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip— 
Defiance gleamed from Casey's eyes — and a sneer curled Casey's lip. 
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there;
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped— 
"That hain't my style," said Casey—"Strike one," the Umpire said. 
From the bleachers black with people there rose a sullen roar, 
Like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and distant shore, 
"Kill him! kill the Umpire!" shouted someone from the stand— 
And it's likely they'd have done it had not Casey raised his hand. 
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone, 
He stilled the rising tumult and he bade the game go on; 
He signalled to the pitcher and again the spheroid flew, 
But Casey still ignored it and the Umpire said, "Strike two." 
"Fraud!" yelled the maddened thousands, and the echo answered "Fraud." 
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed; 
They saw his face grow stern and cold; they saw his muscles strain, 
And they knew that Casey would not let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip; his teeth are clenched with hate,
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate; 
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, 
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh! somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, 
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. 
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; 
But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has "Struck Out."

~ Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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