{"id":7041,"date":"2021-04-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2021-04-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:00:00","slug":"the-happy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-happy-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-04-11\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, April 11, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n The man who cannot rest today,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But says he will tomorrow,\n Finds, when his work is cleared away,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 New tasks or sits in sorrow.\n The merry time, the happy time,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The blissful day in view\n Is never gained by them that wait\n To triumph and to celebrate,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With nothing more to do.\n \n The man who folds his hands today\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And contemplates with sorrow\n The pressing task that\u2019s put away\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Unfinished \u2019til tomorrow\n Has neither rest of heart nor mind,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For he that looks ahead\n To duties long delayed destroys\n The sweetest of sweet leisure\u2019s joys,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 But borrows doubt and dread.\n \n The man who mixes work and play\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At present and tomorrow\n Keeps life\u2019s poor little ills away\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And finds new cares to borrow.\n The merry time, the happy time,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The blissful day in view\n Is every day for him whose hand\n Is turned each day to fair deeds and\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who plays in reason too.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The man who cannot rest today,<br \/>\n     But says he will tomorrow,<br \/>\n Finds, when his work is cleared away,<br \/>\n     New tasks or sits in sorrow.<\/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-7041","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\/7041","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=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}