{"id":7004,"date":"2021-02-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-02-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:00:00","slug":"his-day-of-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/his-day-of-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"His Day of Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-02-10\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, February 10, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n He left her at the gate, one day\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Because his plea she had denied;\n But as he turned to go his way\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His breast, though sad, was filled with pride.\n \u201cSome time,\u201d he said, \u201cyou shall regret;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Some time the world shall grant me fame\n Upon a height my goal is set\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And well won honors I will claim.\u201d\n \n She merely smiled and let him go.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He went out in the world to strive.\n Though fortune dealt him many a blow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He bravely kept his hopes alive.\n He toiled for years with all his might\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And thought of her and of his vow\n His goal still gleaming on the height\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And deep lines forming on his brow.\n At last his day of triumph came.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He was rewarded with success;\n The world accorded him the fame\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which he had sworn he would possess;\n Through ceaseless efforts he had won\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The crown of honor for his own;\n For splendid things which he had done\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His name o\u2019er all the land was known.\n \n Then, having played a splendid part\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He turned from where his goal was set\n And started back to break her heart\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To overwhelm her with regret.\n He found her, but unhappily\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Discovered that she did not care.\n The crown of fame was his, but she\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Was married to a millionaire.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He left her at the gate, one day<br \/>\n     Because his plea she had denied;<br \/>\n But as he turned to go his way<br \/>\n     His breast, though sad, was filled with pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-s-e-kiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","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=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}