Sidney Beck Poet Verse

The Ice Ship

THE    ICE    SHIP

The quay is free at last
Of ropes and boxes bound
For distant parts
For distant ports
Where warmer skies are found

Our cargo fills the hold
With hard won ice and snow
In markets sold
To offer cold
Where breezes hotly blow


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Note

Before fridges were invented,  rich people paid for ice to be bought 
to them in ice ships, which dug out chunks of polar ice caps and
 transported them to the markets of Europe and Africa.

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