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"In all time, / Calm or convulsed, -- in breeze or gale or storm, / Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime / Dark-heaving; -- boundless, endless, and sublime -- / The image of Eternity, -- the throne / Of the Invisible. " -- BYRON.
So far most of our thoughts have been given to Earth's milder regions; where, indeed, the warm ocean water is at best but a thin slice laid over vast depths of cold water, yet where, so far as man is concerned, heat has the upper hand. In other parts, far to north and south, the Reign of Frost is a dire reality; and that chill monarch "rules the roost" in a masterful fashion, lording it over land and sea for months together, with none to resist his sway.