And your cold people are beyond all price,
When once you've broken their confounded ice.
XXXIX.
But after all they are a North-West Passage
Unto the glowing India of the soul;
And as the good ships sent upon that message
Have not exactly ascertained the Pole
(Though Parry's efforts look a lucky presage),[MC]
Thus gentlemen may run upon a shoal;
For if the Pole's not open, but all frost