Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi…
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I. The Burial of the Dead
The day, by the poem's own clock
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The poem names its own hours: a winter dawn, the stroke of nine, the hot water at ten, a winter noon, a closed car at four, the violet hour, and closing time. The rest of the day is filled from the night of the fifth section.