{"id":323,"date":"2020-10-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2020-10-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T05:00:00","slug":"lest-we-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lest-we-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1912-10-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Tacoma Times, October 23, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n While the contest rumbles all about,\n \u00a0 While the leaders hurry to and fro,\n While the speakers agitate and shout,\n \u00a0 While the streams of oratory flow,\n \u2018Mid the talk that no one understands,\n \u00a0 \u2018Mid the noise that all the country fills,\n Don\u2019t forget the weary hearts and hands,\n \u00a0 Don\u2019t forget the children in the mills!\n \n While we talk of tariff and of trust,\n \u00a0 Dream of referendum and recall,\n Down amid the clamor and the dust\n \u00a0 Childish toilers labor till they fall.\n While the war for ballots rages on,\n \u00a0 While the keen excitement ever thrills,\n Don\u2019t forget the faces pale and wan,\n \u00a0 Don\u2019t forget the children in the mills!\n \n These, who never know the joy of play,\n \u00a0 These, whose youth is filched away by greed,\n Turn to us their faces pinched and gray\n \u00a0 Asking us for comfort in their need.\n So, amidst the tumult and the press,\n \u00a0 Don\u2019t forget the cruel toil that kills;\n Hear them moan in utter weariness,\n \u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t forget the children in the mills!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> While the contest rumbles all about,<br \/>\n   While the leaders hurry to and fro,<br \/>\n While the speakers agitate and shout,<br \/>\n   While the streams of oratory flow,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}