{"id":6990,"date":"2020-10-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2020-10-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T05:00:00","slug":"to-the-passing-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/to-the-passing-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Passing Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045433\/1912-10-13\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">The Washington Herald, October 13, 1912<\/a>.\nBy George Sands Johnson.<\/em>\n \n\n There are no blossoms left to tell\n \u00a0 The happy days of Spring!\n While parting anthems of farewell\n \u00a0 Through haunted chambers ring.\n \n Amid vast shrines where ages dwell\n \u00a0 In peace and joy, unseen,\n Deep voices of glad visions well\n \u00a0 And sparkle through the green.\n \n Sweet memory of joyous hours\n \u00a0 That charm the backward gaze,\n Clusters around the folded flowers,\n \u00a0 Still gleam through autumn haze.\n \n And as the summer passes by,\n \u00a0 Where autumn\u2019s shadows brood,\n Gray specters of dead beauty sigh\n \u00a0 In solemn solitude.\n \n How fleet and strange is fate and time!\n \u00a0 As life is swept along\n Through seasons dreary and sublime\n \u00a0 To join the vanished throng.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> There are no blossoms left to tell<br \/>\n   The happy days of Spring!<br \/>\n While parting anthems of farewell<br \/>\n   Through haunted chambers ring.<\/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":[130],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-george-sands-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}