How will the water come down through the floor
When mains are unfrozen and pipes are all "busting"?
Why spurting and squirting, with rush and with roar,
The wall-papers staining, the fire-irons rusting,
And rushing, and gushing, and flashing and splashing,
And making a sort of Aix douche of the bedroom,
And comfort destroying, and every hope dashing,
And leaving one scarce a square yard of dry head-room.
'Twill leak, spirt and trickle, and, oh such a pickle
Will make of my dwelling, from garret to basement,