The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893

Volume 3 / Part 10 — THE SKATER.

Reading edition

BY WILLIAM CANTON.

ILLUSTRATED BY A. L. BOWLEY.

Illustration from The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr

O'er glassy levels of the mere She glides on slanting skate; She loves in fairy curves to veer And weave her figure eight. Bright flower in fur, I would thy feet Could weave my heart and thine, my sweet, Thus into one glad life complete! Harsh winter, rage thy rudest: Freeze, freeze, thou churlish sky; Blow, arctic wind, thy shrewdest— What care my heart and I!