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 …………………………………………………………………………………… 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.