{"id":7093,"date":"2021-05-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2021-05-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:00:00","slug":"the-face-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-face-immortal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Face Immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-05-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, May 3, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Frank L. Stanton.<\/em>\n \n\n Time that has left me lonely still may the shadows chase\n It has not dimmed the beauty of one immortal face\n A sweet face of Life\u2019s springtime\u2014a face the violets know\n God knew, high in His heaven, why I loved it so!\n \n When Evening comes, to tell me: \u201cLife\u2019s friends have left you lone!\n There is no voice to answer the tremblings of your own,\u201d\n I see dear lips of crimson\u2014cheeks where the dimples race\n And Memory is with me, and in dreams I see her face.\n \n Is not Life all dreaming? Where scythes and sabers gleam\n The heroes of Life\u2019s battles are the captains of a Dream!\n And so, when Darkness gives us the blessing of God\u2019s grace\n I\u2019m holding hands with Memory and dreaming of her face.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Time that has left me lonely still may the shadows chase<br \/>\n It has not dimmed the beauty of one immortal face<\/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":[126],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-frank-l-stanton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","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=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}