{"id":269,"date":"2020-11-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2020-11-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T06:00:00","slug":"on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-11-11\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, November 11, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n Some are going farther south\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For a climate new;\n Some seek cooler northern lands\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To their strength renew;\n Some are hiking for the west\n \u00a0 \u00a0 After health and fame;\n Western men are going east\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With the selfsame aim.\n \n Some from Mexico are bound\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For Alaska\u2019s shore;\n From the north some journey down\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where the gulf waves roar;\n On the warm Pacific slope\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Some are there from Maine;\n Others from the far, far west\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Take the eastern train.\n \n In the town where they were born\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Very few remain.\n Others come and take their place\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In the hope of gain.\n And their paths are often crossed,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Touching here and there,\n As they zigzag back and forth\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Going everywhere.\n \n What a restless age it is\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For the man perplexed.\n Stopping first in this man\u2019s town,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Striking for the next!\n Don\u2019t you wish that you could have\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Planted safe and sound\n Half the money that it costs\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For this running round?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Some are going farther south<br \/>\n     For a climate new;<br \/>\n Some seek cooler northern lands<br \/>\n     To their strength renew;<\/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-269","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\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}