With nothing but zeroes all ranged in a row!

O for a big double-barreled hygrometer,

To measure this moisture that rolls from my brow!

O that this cold world were twenty times colder!

(That’s irony red-hot, it seemeth to me);

O for a turn of its dreaded cold shoulder!

O what a comfort an ague would be!

O for a grotto frost-lined and rill-riven,

Scooped in the rock under cataract vast!

O for a winter of discontent even!