{"id":6849,"date":"2021-03-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2021-03-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T05:00:00","slug":"god-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/god-is-near\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Near!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1913-03-21\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>The Washington Herald, March 21, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By John A. Joyce.<\/em>\n \n\n God is near upon the ocean\n \u00a0 \u00a0 God is near upon the land;\n He is all both rest and motion;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We are only grains of sand\u2014\n Little mites upon life\u2019s billow,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 May flies buzzing out the hour,\n Dreams upon a fevered pillow,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Dew drops on a withered flower,\n Only waiting for tomorrow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That has never come to man\n Here we live in joy and sorrow,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Chasing phantoms as we can,\n Chasing pleasure, chasing greatness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Over tangled walks and waves,\n But we learn the bitter lateness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Just before we find our graves.\n Hope is nigh with fairy fingers,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Tracing sunbeams on the way;\n Magic memory ever lingers,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Busy with bygone day;\n Life and death are but the portals\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To a realm of endless rest,\n God is working through his mortals,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 All in some way shall be blessed!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> God is near upon the ocean<br \/>\n     God is near upon the land;<br \/>\n He is all both rest and motion;<br \/>\n     We are only grains of sand\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-john-a-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","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=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}