{"id":619,"date":"2003-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=619"},"modified":"2014-03-17T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:44:17","slug":"old-poetry-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Old poetry favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more If you've known me for years, you probably recognize these--><br \/>\nIf perchance I am sent to a distant hollow<br \/>\nSweetest love I ask, with me should you follow?<\/p>\n<p>Will you close your eyes and hold your breath,<br \/>\ntake a step into Tomorrow?<br \/>\nWill you grasp my hand and still my heart<br \/>\npurge me of my Sorrow?<\/p>\n<p>-&#8220;The Hopeful Appeal&#8221; &#8212; Minyoung Sohn<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"saynot\">Say<\/a> not the struggle naught availeth<br \/>\nThe labor and the wounds are vain<br \/>\nThe enemy faints not nor faileth<br \/>\nAnd as things have been, things remain<\/p>\n<p>If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars<br \/>\nIt may be in yon smoke concealed<br \/>\nYour comrades chase e&#8217;en now the flyers<br \/>\nAnd but for you, possess the field<\/p>\n<p>For while the tired waves, vainly breaking<br \/>\nseem here no painful inch to gain<br \/>\nFar back through creeks and inlets making<br \/>\nComes silent, flooding in the main<\/p>\n<p>And not by eastern windows only<br \/>\nWhen the daylight comes comes in the light<br \/>\nIn front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,<br \/>\nBut westward look, the land is bright.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth&#8221; &#8212; Arthur Hugh Clough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}