{"id":7203,"date":"2021-06-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2021-06-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T05:00:00","slug":"worldly-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/worldly-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldly Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-14\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 14, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n \u201cI\u2019m climbing from the lowlands,\u201d\n \u00a0 \u00a0 A weary pilgrim said,\n \u201cFar up the hills of morning,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Whose tops are tipped with red.\n I see the sun\u2019s rim blazing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Beyond the highest peak;\n There lies the goal of all my dreams,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The goal for which I seek.\u201d\n \n He climbed up from the lowlands,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He scaled the peak he sought,\n Through many a whirling tempest,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Through many a battle fought.\n High on the hills of morning\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He faltered in dismay;\n They were but foothills after all,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And darkness closed the day.\n \n \u2019Tis ever so with dreamers\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With eyes fixed on some goal,\n For which they strive through many years\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And times of heat and cold,\n And spend their lives and break their hearts,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To find when all is past,\n The prize is not worth half the toil\n \u00a0 \u00a0 By which \u2019tis won at last.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI\u2019m climbing from the lowlands,\u201d<br \/>\n     A weary pilgrim said,<br \/>\n \u201cFar up the hills of morning,<br \/>\n     Whose tops are tipped with red.<\/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-7203","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\/7203","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=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}