{"id":7002,"date":"2021-02-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2021-02-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:00:00","slug":"a-wet-sheet-and-flowing-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-wet-sheet-and-flowing-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wet Sheet and Flowing Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1913-02-02\/ed-1\/seq-66\/\"><em>New York Tribune, February 2, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By A. Cunningham.<\/em>\n \n\n A wet sheet and a flowing sea,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A wind that follows fast\n And fills the white and rustling sail\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And bends the gallant mast;\n And bends the gallant mast, my boys,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 While like the eagle free\n Away the good ship flies, and leaves\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Old England on the lee.\n \n O for the soft and gentle wind!\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I hear a fair one cry;\n But give to me the morning breeze\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And white waves heaving high;\n And white waves heaving high, my lads,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The good ship tight and free\u2014\n The world of waters is our home\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And merry men are we.\n \n There\u2019s a tempest in yon horn\u00e9d moon\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And lightning in yon cloud\n But hark the music, mariners!\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The wind is piping loud;\n The wind is piping loud, my boys,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The lightning flashes free\u2014\n While the hollow oak our palace is\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Our heritage the sea.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A wet sheet and a flowing sea,<br \/>\n     A wind that follows fast<br \/>\n And fills the white and rustling sail<br \/>\n     And bends the gallant mast;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers","tag-a-cunningham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002","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=7002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}