Unchangeably Beau fixe.

We change, although you don't; no thread

Is dry on us; small creeks

Form where we stand, all drenched from head

To foot. Blow your Beau fixe!

This beastly weather might have riled

The philosophic Greeks;

It makes us simple Britons wild,

Combined with your Beau fixe.

We tell the landlord we must go—