A Month in Autumn - 02
Ninth Month
What is in a name?
I am September and Roman calendar Latin names me
Septem which means seven, when March heralded the year.
Calculate me by the phases of the moon.
Any yet I am the ninth.
What is in a name?
I september mensis, all hail mighty Caesar and his power,
Consult Sosigenes, astronomer from Alexandria
A solar calendar to make.
But grant me preserve my name.
What is in a name?
A Saxon calls me Gerst monath because of the barley moon.
Middle English born reflect our French connections
And septembre know me by.
And yet still am I the ninth.
What is in a name?
The Holy Father donates a new calendar which Luigi never knew,
And Protestants are wary of a possible Popish plot,
Two centuries pass before Albion
Calls September the month that is ninth.
I have been 30 and once was only 29,
The days may change, but the name is always mine.
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