Dear Lord, I LOVE this poem!  Why have I never heard this before?!

“Oracle of the Dog,” by Vincent Starrett

Only the dog knows why the moon

Floats down the night; his raucous tune

Is urgent with the thing he fears

But falls on unbelieving ears.

If we had only learned to speak

The tongue of dogs instead of Greek

We should be better schooled to fight

The spells and portents of the night.

Now at the coming of the dark,

Young fools adrift in street and park

Yield to an epidemic swoon,

Abuse the dog and praise the moon.