{"id":7095,"date":"2021-05-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2021-05-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T05:00:00","slug":"lets-go-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lets-go-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85066387\/1913-05-04\/ed-1\/seq-29\/\"><em>The San Francisco Call, May 4, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Hazen Conklin.<\/em>\n \n\n All day long I sit a-dreaming\n Of a brook, its waters gleaming\n As it splashes, dances, races\n On its way \u2018mongst woodsy places;\n Of a troutbrook, pooled and ready\n For the hand that\u2019s quick and steady.\n Though my desk, in hopeless clutter\n Calls me back to bread and butter\n Work seems sordid, unromantic\n Its insistences pedantic\n And I sit a-dreaming, wishing:\n Come on, Tom, let\u2019s go a-fishing!\n \n In my fancy I am wading\n Where the arching trees are shading\n Pools where fondly one surmises\n One can coax those lighting \u201crises\u201d\n Overhung by rocks, moss-garnished\n Under which, with truth unvarnished\n One can swear the big trout darted\n Just before the trout line parted.\n Say! What is the call of duty\n When compared to speckled beauty!\n I can hear my line a-swishing:\n Come on, Dick, let\u2019s go a-fishing!\n \n Oh! This beastly grind of working!\n Can\u2019t you feel the fever jerking\n At your coat sleeve, coaxing, teasing\n Saying: \u201cCome, we\u2019ll find appeasing\n For the appetite within you,\u201d\n All the while that you continue\n Adding figures, scribbling phrases\n Threading stupid business mazes?\n Rod and reel and flies and hamper\n Right across each page they scamper.\n Be a sport and stop your wishing:\n Come on, Harry, let\u2019s go FISHING!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> All day long I sit a-dreaming<br \/>\n Of a brook, its waters gleaming<br \/>\n As it splashes, dances, races<br \/>\n On its way \u2018mongst woodsy places;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-san-francisco-call","tag-hazen-conklin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","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=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}