{"id":497,"date":"2020-09-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2020-09-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T05:00:00","slug":"the-distant-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-distant-hymn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Distant Hymn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-09-29\/ed-1\/seq-20\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, September 29, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Wilbur D. Nesbit.<\/em>\n \n\n In a throbbing cadence,\n \u00a0 Through the twilight dim,\n In a crooning murmur,\n \u00a0 Comes an olden hymn.\n Ringing, rising, falling,\n \u00a0 Soft and low and sweet,\n While the mellow echoes\n \u00a0 Whispering, repeat.\n \n Organ-tones and voices\u2014\n \u00a0 Perfectly they blend,\n Till we fall to hoping\n \u00a0 That they will not end\u2014\n That the lulling measures\n \u00a0 May drift on and on,\n Till they greet the rapture\n \u00a0 Of the glowing dawn.\n \n Rich and low and tender,\n \u00a0 On the air of night,\n Wafting with it incense,\n \u00a0 Bringing us delight,\n Comes the wordless music\n \u00a0 From the far away,\n Lending newer glory\n \u00a0 To the dying day.\n \n Thus may all the singing\n \u00a0 Echo to the throne,\n Like this hymn at twilight,\n \u00a0 Into beauty grown\u2014\n Like this mellow music,\n \u00a0 Perfect and complete,\n Ringing, rising, falling,\n \u00a0 Soft and low and sweet.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In a throbbing cadence,<br \/>\n   Through the twilight dim,<br \/>\n In a crooning murmur,<br \/>\n   Comes an olden hymn.<\/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":[312],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-wilbur-d-nesbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}