Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ICE ON THE HIGHWAY, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Seven buxom women abreast, and arm in arm
Last Line: Yet loud their laughter as they stagger and slide!


SEVEN buxom women abreast, and arm in arm,
Trudge down the hill, tip-toed,
And breathing warm;
They must perforce trudge thus, to keep upright
On the glassy ice-bound road,
And they must get to market whether or no,
Provisions running low
With the nearing Saturday night,
While the lumbering van wherein they mostly ride
Can nowise go:
Yet loud their laughter as they stagger and slide!





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