Saturday Rave: November by Thomas Hood

No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon - 
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day - 
No sky - no earthly view - 
No distance looking blue - 
No road - no street - no 't'other side the way' - 
No end to any Row - 
No indications where the Crescents go - 
No top to any steeple - 
No recognitions of familiar people - 
No courtesies for showing'em - 
No knowing 'em -
No travelling at all - no locomotion,
No inkling of the way - no notion,
'No go' by land or ocean - 
No mail - no post - 
No news from any foreign coast - 
No Park - no Ring - no afternoon gentility - 
No company - no nobility - 
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,-
November!

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I wouldn't mind so much, but December's the flipping same!

Word To Use Today: November. The Latin word for nine is novem...yes, I know, but November was the ninth month until July and August were shoved in by Augustus and by the Roman Senate, who wished to commemorate Julius Caesar.