{"id":7035,"date":"2021-04-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7035"},"modified":"2021-04-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:00:00","slug":"curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-04-08\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, April 8, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n And so we part in friendship, yes,\n With neither pain or bitterness.\n And, unbewitched, we plainly see\n The meaning of our comedy;\n Yet this we know\u2014and knowing, smile,\n At least we loved a little while!\n \n The vows we made, the faith we swore,\n To love\u2014and love forevermore,\n Are quite forgot; we turn and go\n Certain that it is better so,\n Yet, though Romance cannot beguile,\n At least we loved a little while.\n \n Because you loved me, I have known\n A world I could not find alone.\n And from my love you did not gain\n A glimpse of palaces in Spain.\n What if we missed the Blissful Isle?\n At least we loved a little while.\n \n Good-bye\u2014upon your brow I press\n The kiss of faithful friendliness.\n For, though we part from sorrow free,\n We lived a space in Arcady,\n And we can whisper, with a smile,\n \u201cAt least we loved a little while!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> And so we part in friendship, yes,<br \/>\n With neither pain or bitterness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","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=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}