{"id":42,"date":"2020-12-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:00:00","slug":"the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-12-30\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, December 30, 1912<\/a>. By W. D. Nesbit.<\/em>\n \n\n Sunrise, and noon, and sunset,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And day slips into day;\n Twilight, and dark, and daylight\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; A year has rolled away.\n Budding, and bloom, and fading,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Green tree, and leafless bough;\n Seeding, and growth, and harvest\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; So dies an old year now.\n \n Singing, and sighs, and silence,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The frownings and the smiles,\n Toiling, and stress, and resting,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And grave or gayer whiles;\n Days that have brought their honors,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; And days that left their scars\u2014\n Over it all the marvel\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Of each night with its stars.\n \n Dreamings, and hopes, and plannings,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Tasks that begin and end;\n Hours that have brought the silence\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Alike to foe and friend.\n Words that were sad or merry,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Draughts that were bittersweet;\n Greetings, and hail, and parting\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The old and new year meet.\n \n Sunrise, and noon, and sunset,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Day will slip into day;\n Twilight, and dark, and daylight,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The year will roll away;\n Sunshine, and song, and gladness,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Fair dreams that come in sleep,\n Birdsong, and nodding blossoms\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; These we are fain to keep.\n \n Darkness, and light, and shadows,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Sorrow and golden cheer,\n Blend into God\u2019s completeness,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Into the finished year,\n Into a memory-fabric\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Woven of shade and shine\u2014\n These are the years unfolding\n &nbsp; &nbsp; In lives like yours and mine.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sunrise, and noon, and sunset,<br \/>\n     And day slips into day;<br \/>\n Twilight, and dark, and daylight\u2014<br \/>\n     A year has rolled away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}