{"id":208,"date":"2020-11-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2020-11-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T06:00:00","slug":"forgetting-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/forgetting-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-11-24\/ed-1\/seq-16\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, November 24, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n<em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n Your cheeks have lost their youthful glow\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Your hair is getting gray\n We, side by side, in weal and woe\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Have come a long, long way.\n \u2019Tis far to where you learned to care\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And where I taught you how\n Your girlish glee is gone and there\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Are lines across your brow.\n \n \u2019Tis long since I have gladly bent\n &nbsp; &nbsp; To whisper love to you\n \u2019Tis long that we have been content\n &nbsp; &nbsp; To prosper with the few.\n I\u2019ve done no wrong to bring regret\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Or cause you to repine\n But it is long since you have let\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Your hand steal into mine.\n \n Come, let us stray back o\u2019er the way\n &nbsp; &nbsp; To where enchantment lies\n And there, in fancy, all the day\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Be youthful and unwise.\n With lavish praise I\u2019ll make you glad\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And whisper love again\u2014\n Come, let us be a lass and lad\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Alone in Lovers\u2019 Lane.\n \n Dear, let us steal from jealous Time\n &nbsp; &nbsp; A precious hour of bliss\n And you, still girlish and sublime\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Shall claim a lover\u2019s kiss\u2014\n \u2019Tis far to where we learned to care\n &nbsp; &nbsp; But we will find the way\n Come, sweetheart, let us journey there\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Forgetting for a day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Your cheeks have lost their youthful glow<br \/>\n     Your hair is getting gray<br \/>\n We, side by side, in weal and woe<br \/>\n     Have come a long, long way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}