{"id":7112,"date":"2021-05-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2021-05-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T05:00:00","slug":"the-lonely-little-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-lonely-little-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lonely Little Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-05-12\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 12, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n The little boy whom you forget\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To play with when the days are fair\n The child whose hopes are sinless yet\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who kneels to lisp his evening prayer\n Will soon leave off his childish ways\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And learn the things that men must learn;\n Why do you waste the precious days\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That never, never can return?\n \n You never lead him by the hand\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Nor make his little joys your own\n Ambition sends you her command\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And he is left to play alone;\n He never climbs upon your knee\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Delighted at the long day\u2019s end\n To find that you have time to be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His fond and sympathetic friend.\n \n You never can afford to waste\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A precious hour arousing him\n The prizes after which you haste\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Are always far away and dim;\n You must be ever pressing on\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Forgetting, while you strive and plan\n How soon his childhood will be gone\n \u00a0 \u00a0 How quickly he will be a man.\n \n You never pause with him to hear\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The breeze that sings among the reeds\n You have no time to give the dear\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Sweet sympathy for which he pleads;\n You never rush with him in wild\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Pursuit of fairies through the glen\n Yourself again a careless child\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Freed from the cares that worry men.\n \n Have you no treasured memories\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of one who gladly played with you\n Before you had been robbed of ease\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And when your cares were small and few?\n Ah, will you rob him of the joy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Of looking back along the years\n When he has ceased to be a boy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And Duty\u2019s call rings in his ears?\n \n The little boy whom you forget\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To play with when the days are fair\n The child whose thoughts are sinless yet\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Who kneels to lisp his evening prayer\n Will soon leave off his childish ways\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And you will sit somewhere alone\n Regretting precious wasted days\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And joys that might have been your own.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The little boy whom you forget<br \/>\n     To play with when the days are fair<br \/>\n The child whose hopes are sinless yet<br \/>\n     Who kneels to lisp his evening prayer<\/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-7112","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\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}