{"id":7122,"date":"2021-05-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2021-05-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T05:00:00","slug":"would-it-not-be-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/would-it-not-be-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Would It Not Be Well?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1913-05-16\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>Rock Island Argus, May 16, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By S. E. Kiser.<\/em>\n \n\n We speak in accents kind and fair\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Concerning those who have departed;\n We praise the ones who travel where\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The shoreless seas are all uncharted.\n Oh, it is well that we should raise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Our voices in a grand, sweet chorus\n And passing o\u2019er their foibles, praise\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The worth of them that go before us.\n \n But would it not be better still\n \u00a0 \u00a0 If men might sometimes gladly hear us\n Give forth expressions of goodwill\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And kindness while they lingered near us?\n \u2019Tis well to praise the dead, to be\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Respectful to them and forgiving;\n But would it not be good if we\n \u00a0 \u00a0 More often spoke well of the living?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We speak in accents kind and fair<br \/>\n     Concerning those who have departed;<br \/>\n We praise the ones who travel where<br \/>\n     The shoreless seas are all uncharted.<\/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-7122","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\/7122","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=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}