The Race of the Ice Yachts - Hurrah for the race! Hurrah!

Photo courtesy of the Poughkeepsie Public Library; from their Main & Market Collection. 

135 years ago this month... 

Ho!  For the Yachts! Hoho!

The ice is smooth,

The breeze is fair,

The day is bright,

Crisp is the air;

Ho for the Yachts! Hoho! 

Hurrah for the race! Hurrah!

Eager they come to win the prize,

Flitting about like butterflies;

Gliding along to try their speed --

Going about (take heed, take heed)

So quickly that each one must need 

A cool head in the willer,

A strong hand on the tiller: 

For perils and dangers

Surround these swift rangers--

Hurrah for the race! Hurrah! 

Read on here for the rest of this cheery poem from March of 1883. 

Who will win?? Scud? Icicle? Aeolus? Jack Frost?.....