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Pluck, endurance, submission to discipline, good temper, calmness, judgment, quickness of observation, self-control, are all qualities as essential in a good polo player as in a good soldier.—Badminton Library—Polo.

ERE'S a song of the game we play

Out on the burnt maidân,

Right from Poona to Mandalay,

"Trichy" to far Mooltan.

Sahib and Jemadar here may meet:

Victory's laurels rest

Still with the daring, bold, and fleet

Sons of the East or West.

Rules of precedence too we doff,

Etiquette's self is blind;

Subalterns ride their Colonel off,

Nor does the Colonel mind.

Here's a verse for the steeds we ride,

Never a swerve or flinch,

Hunter's strength with a racehorse stride,

Fourteen hands and an inch.

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