{"id":251,"date":"2020-11-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2020-11-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:00:00","slug":"serving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/serving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-11-02\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, November 2, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n Lift up your eyes and look about\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And get your money\u2019s worth,\n For lying fair before you see\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A great old little earth.\n The view is very wide and bright\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And pulsing everywhere,\n And not a picture in the world\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Can with the sight compare.\n \n Lift up your eyes. Don\u2019t focus them\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Upon the lowly ditch\n The while you brood upon your woes\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And wish that you were rich.\n Before you lies a waiting world,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All joyous, bright and fair,\n And, with the others of your kind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In it you own a share.\n \n Lift up your eyes and take a look,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For everything is free,\n And no admission need be paid\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And no outgoing fee.\n The brook, the meadow and the lake,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The clouds that grace the air,\n The mountains and the restless sea\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Are there for you to share.\n \n Lift up your eyes unto the hills\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And let your soul expand\n As in the broader, wider view\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A man newborn you stand.\n Take heed of nature\u2019s wondrous works,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whose beauties you now miss,\n And, though you may be poor in purse,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You shall be rich in this.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Lift up your eyes and look about<br \/>\n     And get your money\u2019s worth,<br \/>\n For lying fair before you see<br \/>\n     A great old little earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}