{"id":465,"date":"2020-09-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-09-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T05:00:00","slug":"back-to-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/back-to-the-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84024827\/1912-09-13\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Bisbee Daily Review, September 13, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n They\u2019re urgin\u2019 weary city men to go back to the soil,\n To tinker up their shattered nerves by good old honest toil.\n They say it does a feller good to live close to the ground\n With not a high-toned French cafe for fifty miles around.\n That may sound fine and dandy when a feller is town-bred,\n And doesn\u2019t know a spring tooth harrow from a foldin\u2019 bed,\n But to us fellers on the farm who\u2019ve been agin\u2019 the game\n All of our lives, that sage advice sounds purty doggone tame.\n \n It ain\u2019t so gol dum dandy and it ain\u2019t so gol dum fine\n To hop out of the hay at four instid of eight or nine.\n It ain\u2019t so \u2018tarnal cheerful to do three hours\u2019 work before\n The farmer\u2019s wife yells: \u201cBreakfast\u201d from the old farm kitchen door.\n It ain\u2019t no sort of easy snap to work right through till night,\n And do back-breaking stunts as long as there is any light.\n They say it is a rest-cure and it possibly may be,\n But as a rest it never yet has quite appealed to me.\n \n The poets write quite purty of the everlastin\u2019 hills,\n The wooded glens and lowin\u2019 kine and little babbling rills.\n Of course, it is the only life that\u2019s healthful right along,\n But still it ain\u2019t what you would always call a glad sweet song.\n There\u2019s plenty of the other thing, the hard, heartrendin\u2019 toil\n And I guess that them city guys who go back to the soil\n Would about one good hot day with sun a-beatin\u2019 down,\n And then they\u2019d pack their grips and gladly yell, \u201cBack to the Town.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> They\u2019re urgin\u2019 weary city men to go back to the soil,<br \/>\n To tinker up their shattered nerves by good old honest toil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bisbee-daily-review","category-newspapers","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}