When Winter chains from shore to shore
The waves in its icy fetters
On rivers and lakes when labours o’er
Maids, skate with your lovers
On Winter’s eve, when your labour you leave
Should a swain then advance and intreat you to dance
Of your steps pray beware
Of your falls pray take care
Love calls you once, calls you twice, over the cracks of the ice
And you dance on the frozen river

The young Pauline with a lover one day
On the ice-neath them both its spoken
Their footing slipp’d on the frost they say
And they vanished where the ice was broken
And the very next spring
When the frost was thawing
Washed up on the shore
Was the still paramore
And his love, poor Pauline
You may grasp what I mean
Love called them once, called them twice, down through the cracks of the ice
And they slept in the Frozen River