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January	A
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Janus am I oldest of potentates	B
Forward I look and backward and below	C
I count as god of avenues and gates	B
The years that through my portals come and go	C
I block the roads and drift the fields with snow	C
I chase the wild fowl from the frozen fen	D
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow	C
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men	D
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February	A
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I am lustration and the sea is mine	E
I wash the sands and headlands with my tide	F
My brow is crowned with branches of the pine	E
Before my chariot wheels the fishes glide	F
By me all things unclean are purified	F
By me the souls of men washed white again	D
E'en the unlovely tombs of those who died	F
Without a dirge I cleanse from every stain	G
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March	H
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I Martius am Once first and now the third	I
To lead the Year was my appointed place	J
A mortal dispossessed me by a word	I
And set there Janus with the double face	J
Hence I make war on all the human race	J
I shake the cities with my hurricanes	K
I flood the rivers and their banks efface	J
And drown the farms and hamlets with my rains	K
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April	L
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I open wide the portals of the Spring	M
To welcome the procession of the flowers	N
With their gay banners and the birds that sing	M
Their song of songs from their aerial towers	N
I soften with my sunshine and my showers	N
The heart of earth with thoughts of love I glide	F
Into the hearts of men and with the Hours	N
Upon the Bull with wreathed horns I ride	F
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May	O
	-
Hark The sea faring wild fowl loud proclaim	P
My coming and the swarming of the bees	Q
These are my heralds and behold my name	P
Is written in blossoms on the hawthorn trees	Q
I tell the mariner when to sail the seas	Q
I waft o'er all the land from far away	O
The breath and bloom of the Hesperides	Q
My birthplace I am Maia I am May	O
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June	R
	-
Mine is the Month of Roses yes and mine	E
The Month of Marriages All pleasant sights	Q
And scents the fragrance of the blossoming vine	E
The foliage of the valleys and the heights	Q
Mine are the longest days the loveliest nights	Q
The mower's scythe makes music to my ear	S
I am the mother of all dear delights	Q
I am the fairest daughter of the year	T
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July	U
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My emblem is the Lion and I breathe	V
The breath of Libyan deserts o'er the land	W
My sickle as a sabre I unsheathe	V
And bent before me the pale harvests stand	W
The lakes and rivers shrink at my command	W
And there is thirst and fever in the air	X
The sky is changed to brass the earth to sand	W
I am the Emperor whose name I bear	X
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August	Y
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The Emperor Octavian called the August	Y
I being his favorite bestowed his name	P
Upon me and I hold it still in trust	Y
In memory of him and of his fame	P
I am the Virgin and my vestal flame	P
Burns less intensely than the Lion's rage	Z
Sheaves are my only garlands and I claim	P
The golden Harvests as my heritage	A2
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September	B2
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I bear the Scales where hang in equipoise	Q
The night and day and whenunto my lips	Q
I put my trumpet with its stress and noise	Q
Fly the white clouds like tattered sails of ships	Q
The tree tops lash the air with sounding whips	Q
Southward the clamorous sea fowl wing their flight	C2
The hedges are all red with haws and hips	Q
The Hunter's Moon reigns empress of the night	C2
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October	B2
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My ornaments are fruits my garments leaves	Q
Woven like cloth of gold and crimson dyed	F
I do no boast the harvesting of sheaves	Q
O'er orchards and o'er vineyards I preside	F
Though on the frigid Scorpion I ride	F
The dreamy air is full and overflows	Q
With tender memories of the summer tide	F
And mingled voices of the doves and crows	Q
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November	B2
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The Centaur Sagittarius am I	U
Born of Ixion's and the cloud's embrace	Q
With sounding hoofs across the earth I fly	U
A steed Thessalian with a human face	Q
Sharp winds the arrows are with which I chase	Q
The leaves half dead already with affright	F
I shroud myself in gloom and to the race	Q
Of mortals bring nor comfort nor delight	F
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December	B2
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Riding upon the Goat with snow white hair	X
I come the last of all This crown of mine	E
Is of the holly in my hand I bear	X
The thyrsus tipped with fragrant cones of pine	E
I celebrate the birth of the Divine	E
And the return of the Saturnian reign	G
My songs are carols sung at every shrine	E
Proclaiming Peace on earth good will to men	D

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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