{"id":6993,"date":"2021-01-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:00:00","slug":"dawn-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/dawn-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From The <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-01-18\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Birmingham Age-Herald, January 18, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By John Ruskin.<\/em>\n \n\n Put off, put off your mail, O kings,\n And beat your brands to dust,\n Your hands must learn a surer grasp,\n Your hearts a better trust.\n \n Oh, bend aback the lance\u2019s point,\n And break the helmet bar;\n A noise is in the morning wind,\n But not the note of war.\n \n Upon the grassy mountain paths,\n The glittering hosts increase;\n They come, they come! How fair their feet\u2014\n They come who publish peace.\n \n And victory, fair victory,\n Our enemies are ours;\n For all the clouds are clasped in light\n And all the earth with flowers.\n \n Ay, still depressed and dim with dew,\n But wait a little while;\n And with the radiant deathless rose\n The wilderness shall smile.\n \n And every dainty tender thing\n Shall feed by streams of rest;\n No lamb shall from the flock be lost,\n Nor nursling from the nest.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Put off, put off your mail, O kings,<br \/>\n And beat your brands to dust,<br \/>\n Your hands must learn a surer grasp,<br \/>\n Your hearts a better trust.<\/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":[200],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-john-ruskin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","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=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}