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PAST AND PRESENT by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: OUR FATHERS IN THE GEORGIAN ERA
Last Line: SUITS THE YET THINNER CONVERSATION.
Subject(s): GEORGIA (STATE); PAST;

OUR fathers in the Georgian era
Shone over port and old Madeira.
We of this less robustious epoch
Excel in dulness over cheap hock.
And true enough, the thin potation
Suits the yet thinner conversation.



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