'Life, like a game of bowls is but an end which to play well this moral verse attend.'

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Title

'Life, like a game of bowls is but an end which to play well this moral verse attend.'

Description

Poem from Haleworth Angel 1808.

Creator

Tom Sutton

Publisher

Trinity College Dublin

Date

2012

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Relation

Tom Sutton

Is Part Of

Reflections

Type

Life Story

Spatial Coverage

Glengormley, Co. Antrim

Temporal Coverage

2010s

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Text

Life, like a game of bowls is but an end Which to play well this moral verse attend. Throw not your bowl too swiftly from you hand, First let its course, by reason's eye be planned Lest it roll useless o'er the verdant plain This sanguine life be spent in vain. Bowling too short you thus obstruct the green Life those who loiter on life' public scene. Know well your bias; here's the moral school Scarce needs a comment on the bowling rule, Play not too straight, in life observe the same, The narrow minded often miss their aim. Nor yet too wide, with caution eye you cast Use not extent of green or life to waste On bowling short avoid in moral play Oh! Never block your neighbour's way. These rules observed a man may play the game On this small spot, or through the world with fame. . - poem from Haleworth Angel B.C. 1808

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Irish Research Council for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS)

Research Coordinator/P.I.

Dr Kathleen McTiernan (Trinity College Dublin)

Senior Research Associate

Dr Deirdre O'Donnell (Trinity College Dublin)

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