from - "Casey at the bat"

"Casey at the Bat"    Ernest Lawrence Thayer


............."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 Boston:  Mighty Casey has struck out."




from  -  The Best Loved Poems of the American People

selected by Hazel Felleman  copyright 1936