{"id":6877,"date":"2021-03-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=689"},"modified":"2021-03-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T06:00:00","slug":"arcadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/arcadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1913-03-14\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Topeka State Journal, March 14, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Roy K. Moulton.<\/em>\n \n\n I don\u2019t want to live in Arcadia,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Quite willingly I confess;\n The realm that the poets rave about,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The kingdom of happiness;\n Where all is serene as a morn in Spring,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Birds singing in every tree.\n There must be a catch in the thing somewhere.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It doesn\u2019t look good to me.\n \n The work in Arcadia is a cinch;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They watch the sheep all day,\n And when they need music to while the time\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They hunt up their flutes and play.\n They work on a very peculiar plan.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The salaries there are nil.\n No one ever saw an Arcadian\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who had a two dollar bill.\n \n They wear sheepskin togas so very brief\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They reach only to the knees,\n And caper about in a care-free way\n \u00a0 \u00a0 No matter how chill the breeze.\n There\u2019s nothing but happiness in that land\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With the proletariat,\n But I couldn\u2019t ever be happy enough\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To dress in a rig like that.\n \n The life in Arcadia listens tame\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With no moving picture show,\n And never a single league bowling game,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And never a chance to go\n And see a good circus and eat peanuts\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or laugh at the chimpanzee.\n There may be pure joy in Arcadia,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But this town looks good to me.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I don\u2019t want to live in Arcadia,<br \/>\n     Quite willingly I confess;<br \/>\n The realm that the poets rave about,<br \/>\n     The kingdom of happiness;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[267],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-roy-k-moulton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","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=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}