{"id":602,"date":"2021-02-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2021-02-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:00:00","slug":"o-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/o-time\/","title":{"rendered":"O, Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-02-15\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, February 15, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight!\n Give me conceit again, just for tonight;\n Carry me back to the days when I wore\n Loud clothes and in fact, was a gay sophomore;\n Smooth from my forehead all traces of care\n Cover my poll with a thatch of dark hair;\n Put all the doubts that assail me to sleep\n Give back the self-love I neglected to keep.\n \n Tired of the hollow, the base and untrue.\n I long to be somewhere around 22,\n With the boundless conceit that enlivened me then,\n When I fancied I wielded a masterful pen;\n When I thought that the things which I wrote were sublime,\n And was sure that my fame must endure through all time\u2014\n When I proudly believed that my wisdom was deep\n And that genius was resting when I went to sleep.\n \n Turn backward, O time, for tonight, won\u2019t you please\n And let me be gladdened by youth\u2019s ecstasies?\n Permit me to have the cock-sureness of yore\n That I had when I strutted, a proud sophomore,\n Believing I knew all a mortal might know\n And sure I was chosen to lead here below;\n Oh put all the doubts that perplex me to sleep,\n Give back the conceit I\u2019ve neglected to keep.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight!<br \/>\n Give me conceit again, just for tonight;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}