{"id":33,"date":"2020-12-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2020-12-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T01:00:00","slug":"the-wager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-wager\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1912-12-26\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age-Herald, December 26, 1912<\/a>.<\/em>\n \n\n El Shamar was a builder\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Of fame long years ago;\n Ar Hamel was a poet\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Of whom we little know.\n \n But once, a legend has it,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Shamar stood and smiled\n Before a palace golden\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Which he had reared and styled.\n \n \u201cAr Hamel, I\u2019m a builder,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And you a singer\u2014say,\n You write a song; I\u2019ll wager\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Your song first fades away!\u201d\n \n Ar Hamel wrote a love song;\n &nbsp; &nbsp; A fragile thing it seemed\n Beside the palace golden\n &nbsp; &nbsp; That in the sunshine gleamed.\n \n But when the lofty palace\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Had crumbled into dust,\n And on the wind was dancing,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The plaything of each gust;\n \n When Shamar long had vanished,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Forgotten was his name,\n When Hamel, happy hearted,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Was known no more to fame;\n \n Still in that land the love song\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Was sung by lovers true;\n The love song was immortal,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Its theme forever new!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> El Shamar was a builder<br \/>\n     Of fame long years ago;<br \/>\n Ar Hamel was a poet<br \/>\n     Of whom we little know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}