{"id":196,"date":"2020-11-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2020-11-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T06:00:00","slug":"the-singers-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-singers-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Singer&#8217;s Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1912-11-18\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Seattle Star, November 18, 1912<\/a><\/em>. By Berton Braley.\n \n\n I have heartened your soul for battle, I have turned your face to the fray,\n I have stirred your blood to a seething flood with many a valiant lay;\n I have made your songs of conflict and slogans to lead you on,\n I have chanted you forth to victory when all your hope was gone.\n You march to the beat of songs I sing, they comfort your sleep at night\n And yet you call me a weakling soul because I do not fight!\n \n If I go forth to the battle field and join in the conflict there\n I am only one of a thousand men who does his little share\n But the songs I make in my sheltered tent as I toil with brain and pen\n Are the breath that fans the fighting flame in the hearts of a thousand men.\n And, though I take not to the field or stand in the battle line\n The word that carries the warriors on to victory is mine!\n \n I have lifted your souls from fell defeat to battle again\u2014and win\n I have sounded a clarion call of faith amid the fighting din\n What matters it if my hand is weak when I make ten thousand strong\n By the thrill of a magic chant of words and the rhythm of a song?\n I keep the private\u2019s courage high, the captain\u2019s eyes alight\u2014\n And yet you call me a weakling soul because I do not fight!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I have heartened your soul for battle, I have turned your face to the fray,<br \/>\n I have stirred your blood to a seething flood with many a valiant lay;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}