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AN INVITATION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun has neatly varnished
Last Line: I can't offend the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sun


The sun has neatly varnished
At no small cost
Pine-needles that were tarnished
By too much frost,

And starched without a quandary
The day and its environ
That drops of dew will laundry
And slabs of wind will iron,

And shined the crabbed apples
As though they weren't shrunk,
And charged the black dapples
To hide in the trunk,

And sprayed the common yarrow
With fumigating gold,
Warning her slave, the sparrow,
To chirp as he was told,

And dusted with bright talcum
The convex of her face,
And graved a note of welcome
On a card cut out of space,

That reads, "My somewhat aimless,
O won't you honor me
By coming to my nameless
And clear festivity?"

I think the note was dated
Today. . . O sandals, run! --
For tho my eyes are weighted,
I can't offend the sun!





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