{"id":7173,"date":"2021-06-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2021-06-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T05:00:00","slug":"an-alabama-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/an-alabama-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alabama Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-01\/ed-1\/seq-28\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Along a pine-clad hill it lies,\n O\u2019erlooked by limpid southern skies,\n A spot to feast a fairy\u2019s eyes,\n A nook for happy fancies.\n The wild bee\u2019s mellow monotone\n Here blends with bird notes zephyr-blown,\n And many an insect voice unknown\n The harmony enhances.\n \n The rose\u2019s shattered splendor flees\n With lavish grace on every breeze,\n And lilies sway with flexile ease\n Like dryads snowy-breasted;\n And where gardenias drowse between\n Rich curving leaves of glossy green,\n The cricket strikes his tambourine,\n Amid the mosses nested.\n \n Here dawn-flushed myrtles interlace,\n And sifted sunbeams shyly trace\n Frail arabesques whose shifting grace\n Is wrought of shade and shimmer;\n At eventide scents quaint and rare\n Go straying through my garden fair,\n As if they sought with wildered air\n The fireflies\u2019 fitful glimmer.\n \n Oh, could some painter\u2019s facile brush\n On canvas limn my garden\u2019s blush,\n The fevered world its din would hush\n To crown the high endeavor;\n Or could a poet snare in rhyme\n The breathings of this balmy clime,\n His fame might dare the dart of Time\n And soar undimmed forever!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Along a pine-clad hill it lies,<br \/>\n O\u2019erlooked by limpid southern skies,<br \/>\n A spot to feast a fairy\u2019s eyes,<br \/>\n A nook for happy fancies.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173","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=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}