These, the Hot Dog Days of Summer.

July 3rd marked the beginning of the “Dog Days of Summer,” 


These, the dog days of summer

We are winding through the dog days

caniculares dies

Where Sirius the "Dog Star"

Rises and set with the sun

from July 3 to August 11

An evil time "when the seas boiled,

Wine turned sour, dogs grew mad,

And all creatures became languid,

Causing to man burning fevers,

Hysterics, and phrensies"

So they said of old.

The brightest of the stars in

Canis Major (the big dog) is

Sirius, which also happens to

Be the brightest star in the night sky.

On to September 23^rd

The last day of summer,

But for those who went back to school

It came early

And left not fall

But a dream of summer gone.

And we, with but a few days left

Curse the heat that lingers on

Past its appointed time.

Wanting to get out and run, work and play

They have been way too many

Air-conditioned days.

Now working down

To equal day to equal night

Then on into shorter and days

And colder and colder

Until in the depth of winter

We pray for those hot Dog summer Days.

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