{"id":6875,"date":"2021-03-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2021-03-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T06:00:00","slug":"the-old-home-yonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-old-home-yonder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Home Yonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-03-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, March 12, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n We hurry through the busy days,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We that within the cities dwell,\n And, having won a little praise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For toiling hard or planning well,\n Turn homeward with a pride that dies\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Before another day has dawned\n And we again pursue the prize\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That always lies so far beyond.\n \n We have our little triumphs who\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Among the eager thousands strive;\n Each busy day brings something new\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To keep our feeble hopes alive,\n But sweeter than the fairest gains\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The cities yield us are the joys\n That come in dreams of country lanes\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Down which we strolled when we were boys.\n \n We nurse ambitions that are fair,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And struggle on to win renown,\n But when the day ends with its care,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 We still dream of the little town\n Or of the orchard where the breeze\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Once stirred the fragrant buds in May;\n We keep the sweet old memories,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It matters not how far we stray.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We hurry through the busy days,<br \/>\n     We that within the cities dwell,<br \/>\n And, having won a little praise<br \/>\n     For toiling hard or planning well,<\/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-6875","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\/6875","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=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}