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Lay for the Day
2nd
April
The
month of April is named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. In
ancient Rome the early part of the month was sacred to Venus, the Romans
equivalent deity, and was a time for pranks, hilarity, cross-dressing
and the like, in honour of that goddess whom Homer calls the laughter-loving
one.
From
The Legacy:
XIII.
The Fashion
Should naked-born desire don
old clothing
Or that which turns time take the latest trim,
Lacing a bold body up in the whim
Of fashions current, gushing and frothing?
Beauty unashamed courts public loathing
Though in another morning age, less dim
With durance, to Venus Parian quim
Nothing was so well suited as nothing.
That
days gone. Go get your wildest show on
And
well step out tonight to tell the town
In dress
how we delight ourselves undressed
When
in each others arms were host and guest.
Love
inspires a style bested by no one,
Though
like that emperors, bare but for his crown.
John
Gibbens
from Legacy
The
Lay Reader: an archive of the poetic calendar
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