{"id":6983,"date":"2020-09-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2020-09-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:00:00","slug":"trouble-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/trouble-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1912-09-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, September 23, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Wilbur D. Nesbit.<\/em>\n \n\n \u00a0 We do not need to borrow\n \u00a0 Our trouble from tomorrow;\n We\u2019ll find enough to worry us before we\u2019re through today;\n \u00a0 We waste our time in fretting\n \u00a0 O\u2019er what\u2019s to come, forgetting\n The goodness and the gladness that are rich along the way.\n \n \u00a0 We do not need to ponder\n \u00a0 On what we left back yonder\u2014\n Back yonder on the blotted page that tells of yesterday;\n \u00a0 We should recall the gladness,\n \u00a0 And not bring up the sadness,\n But let the gloom go to the dark and let the sunshine stay.\n \n \u00a0 This casting up of trouble\n \u00a0 Will only make it double\u2014\n Will only wilt the flowers that are sweet along the road.\n \u00a0 This thing of being tearful\n \u00a0 Instead of waxing cheerful\n Because of what has gone, will only add unto our load.\n \n \u00a0 So, what\u2019s the use to borrow\n \u00a0 Our trouble from tomorrow,\n Or clutch the sorrows that we thought were ours on yesterday?\n \u00a0 Today will have its fretting,\n \u00a0 But let us go, forgetting\n And joy will overtake us while we walk along the way.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>   We do not need to borrow<br \/>\n   Our trouble from tomorrow;<br \/>\n We\u2019ll find enough to worry us before we\u2019re through today;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-wilbur-d-nesbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}