{"id":6874,"date":"2021-03-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2021-03-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T06:00:00","slug":"in-school-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/in-school-days\/","title":{"rendered":"In School Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-03-11\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, March 11, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By John Greenleaf Whittier.<\/em>\n \n\n Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A ragged beggar sunning;\n Around it still the sumachs grow,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And blackberry vines are running.\n \n Within, the master\u2019s desk is seen,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Deep scarred by raps official;\n The warping floor, the battered seats,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The jack knife\u2019s carved initial.\n \n The charcoal frescoes on the wall;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Its door\u2019s worn sill, betraying\n The feet that, creeping slow to school\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Went storming out to playing.\n \n Long years ago a winter sun\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Shone over it at setting;\n Lit up its western window panes,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And low eaves icy fretting.\n \n It touched the tangled golden curls,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And brown eyes full of grieving,\n Of one who still her steps delayed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 When all the school was leaving.\n \n For near her stood the little boy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Her childish favor singled;\n His cap pulled low upon a face\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Where pride and shame were mingled.\n \n Pushing with restless feet the snow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To right and left, he lingered\u2014\n As restlessly her tiny hands\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The blue checked apron fingered.\n \n He saw her lift her eyes; he felt\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The soft hand\u2019s light caressing,\n And heard the tremble of her voice,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As if a fault confessing.\n \n \u201cI\u2019m sorry that I spelt the word;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I hate to go above you,\n Because,\u201d\u2014the brown eyes lower fell\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cBecause, you see, I love you!\u201d\n \n Still memory to gray haired man\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That sweet child face is showing,\n Dear girl! The grasses on her grave\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Have forty years been growing!\n \n He lives to learn in life\u2019s hard school\n \u00a0 \u00a0 How few who pass above him\n Lament their triumph and his loss,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Like her\u2014because they love him.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,<br \/>\n     A ragged beggar sunning;<br \/>\n Around it still the sumachs grow,<br \/>\n     And blackberry vines are running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-john-greenleaf-whittier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","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=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}