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OK.

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In this next to the last
poem, I'll go back to Greece.

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I mean Rome really.

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"On a Summer Goddess
who Should Be Nameless."

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"On a summer goddess
who should be nameless.

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There are two things you have
to worry about about her.

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She opens up for you,
and she closes up on you.

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But you shouldn't worry
too much about it,

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because that is the way she is,
and this is the way you are.

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You just shouldn't
mention her name.

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She loves you in her own
way, and you love her

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in your own way, but you
should never call her an ox.

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If you call a woman
an ox, you're dead.

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So what do you say
about a goddess?

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She might keep you alive
and in her own hell,

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so you have to sweet talk
her to death, your own.

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And call her by all sorts of
names, like ox-eyed daisy,

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dog-dayes-eye, gold flower,
white flower, clear flower,

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Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
or Bellis perennis,

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anything to avoid it, the
name of the ox-eyed goddess.

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The one whose name begins with
an H, has two letters, E and R,

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and ends with an A.

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You know the one I mean, the one
who comes on Midsummer Night,

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protected by and running
that dog, Sirius, to oversee

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the crisis of opening
and closing time.

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That's when the flowers start
to bloom themselves to death,

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so that their seeds can
blow away and start up

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someplace else.

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So watch it.

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Do right by her and her
daisies, and beware the dog.

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He's called Rusty or Red Dog
or else Blackie or Black Dog,

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because if he looks down on
you out of one of his red eyes,

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if she happens to ask him to,
as they swing by overhead,

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you and yours and
your whole countryside

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will be wholly burnt
up to black ashes."

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