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A SKATER by MARION STROBEL

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU WHO WEAR BATTLE GREY
Last Line: ONLY LOVLINESS! ONLY LOVLINESS!
Subject(s): SKATING & SKATERS; SPORTS;

You who wear battle grey,
Who are a savage thing,
And swoop on the ice like a bird of prey,
How is it your talons so glittering
Draw no blood as they press? . . .
Only lovliness! only lovliness!



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