Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVITATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS



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First Line: You who had the sense
Last Line: Let us be conscious and talk of these things.
Subject(s): Fathers


We live in this flat blue basin,
We and the meadow things, my townspeople,
And there beyond where the snow lies
In ochred patches float the smoke-grey towers.
Has it never struck you as curious
That we do not all leave this place?
Surely we are blest
With a noteworthy wisdom, my townspeople!
Let us be conscious and talk of these things.





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