To: grey_whiskers
That is easy—written during the Little Ice Age in which the River Thames would freeze over during the winter..
19 posted on
06/26/2020 11:21:51 AM PDT by
abigkahuna
(How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
To: abigkahuna
Yes, but the second line says "on a SUMMER's day". How long did it take the Thames to Thaw?
("I thawt I thaw a Frozen Thames")
21 posted on
06/26/2020 11:28:20 AM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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To: abigkahuna
It was probably written about Kolyma.
In the gulags they had a poem about Kolyma...
Kolyma, Kolyma, amazing planet
12 months of winter,
the rest is summer...
28 posted on
06/26/2020 11:48:11 AM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: abigkahuna
The Thames would thaw but there might have been areas where much smaller bodies of water could stay rather frozen. Skating on thin ice so to speak...
30 posted on
06/26/2020 11:52:50 AM PDT by
abigkahuna
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