The weather, they found, was wintry enough.
When they climbed an iceberg’s loftiest height,
To the imminent danger of dresses and hoops,
Of ribbons and pins, and laces and loops,
The Grinnell Expedition was in sight.
Now the lady had been prepared to preach,
Or rather, to make a nice serious speech;
But it might as well have been written in Dutch for her,
For the wind and the weather, conspiring together,