Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SKATERS, by GRACE W. LEACH



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THE SKATERS, by                    
First Line: Above the frozen floods
Last Line: Silently by.
Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports


ABOVE the frozen floods
Gay feet keep time,
Steel-shod, their measures beat
Insistent rhyme.
No cares oppress the hearts
Glad youth makes light;
The winter skies and happy eyes
Alike are bright.

Shores where the summer waves
Have whispered low,
Echo the skaters' song,
As to and fro
Glide flitting forms,
And watch-fire's glow
Leaps into frosty air
And crimsons snow.

Fly, skaters, with wing'd feet!
The night wears on;
Be your stroke ne'er so fleet,
Night soon is gone.
With morning's dawn, the fires
In ashes lie,
And mountains keep their ward
Silently by.





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