{"id":215,"date":"2020-11-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2020-11-27T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T06:00:00","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83016689\/1912-11-27\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">The Detroit Times, November 27, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Margaret Florence McAuley.<\/em>\n \n\n We thank Thee, God, for every gift\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Thou hast bestowed on man\n Through all the years, in every clime\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Since this strange world began.\n \n We thank thee for the prosperous year\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Now nearly at an end\n For all the comfort, peace, and joy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which Thou did\u2019st freely send.\n \n We thank Thee, too, for each good deed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Each helpful kind reform\n Which served to guide poor, struggling men\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To shelter \u2018mid earth\u2019s storm.\n \n We thank Thee that no earthly woe\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Can harm eternally\n But that the very pain we dread\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Binds us more close to Thee.\n \n Behind the cloud is light, behind\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The sorrow there is joy\n And all the foolish wrongs of earth\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Thy right hand can destroy.\n \n Thou Who hast guided in the past\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Wilt lead us to the end\n Power is Thine eternally\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To take, withhold, or send.\n \n And so our heart must still rejoice\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Since Thou art at the helm\n Guiding and lifting all mankind\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Up to a happier realm.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We thank Thee, God, for every gift<br \/>\n     Thou hast bestowed on man<br \/>\n Through all the years, in every clime<br \/>\n     Since this strange world began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-margaret-florence-mcauley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}