As a lifelong Texan, I am no stranger to hot summers, so this poem, popularly known as “Ode To Texas” hits a certain nerve around this time of the year when it feels like the triple-digit days will never end in the Lone Star State.  The author of this work has seemingly been lost to time, but it was written way before our miserably hot modern times.  And so I give you:  “Ode to Texas”