{"id":255,"date":"2020-11-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2020-11-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:00:00","slug":"beyond-the-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/beyond-the-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1912-11-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Washington Herald, November 4, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n<em>By John A. Joyce.<\/em>\n \n\n There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where the summer never ends\n And ingratitude is absent\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Among all celestial friends\n And our earthly tribulation\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is forgotten on that shore,\n With happiness in splendor\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And sweet rest forever more.\n \n There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where the flowers ever bloom,\n And pure love is everlasting\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To dispel the shades of gloom,\n Where the soul is plumed with beauty\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In an atmosphere of peace,\n And greed and vicious malice\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Shall forever fade and cease.\n \n There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where suspicion cannot go\n And hypocrisy is never known\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To entrap with nameless woe,\n And where conscience ever lingers\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As transparent as the sun\n With hope and faith forever\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When this sordid life is done.\n \n There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And as bright as morning dew,\n With immortal angels singing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For the faithful, brave, and true,\n Who never sold their honor\n \u00a0 \u00a0 On this venal, vernal sod\n But in the silence of their soul\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Held worship for their God.\n \n There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And another land up higher\n Where the soul is ever soaring\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And infused with heavenly fire,\n Where other suns and planets\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Roll around in mystic sway\n In their brilliant evolution\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And eternal right of way.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There\u2019s a land beyond the sunset<br \/>\n     Where the summer never ends<br \/>\n And ingratitude is absent<br \/>\n     Among all celestial friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-a-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}