{"id":7210,"date":"2021-06-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2021-06-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T05:00:00","slug":"the-summons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-summons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-06-16\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, June 16, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Reginald Wright Kauffman.<\/em>\n \n\n Oh, Summer\u2019s in the land again, and Summer\u2019s on the sea;\n Across the blue horizon rim the old gods beckon me;\n The little ships ride restless at their anchors in the bay;\n The birds are trooping northward, dear, and I must be away.\n \n I see the Savoy mountains white; I hear the sheep bells ring\n Below me in the valley where the little children sing;\n And high above the timber line, along the glacier track,\n The ice field and the summit snows, they whisper me: \u201cCome back.\u201d\n \n It\u2019s well I know your tender heart and kindliness and grace,\n And well I know the gentle light that sanctifies your face;\n Unworthily, yet truly, I love you, Heaven-sent,\n And nowhere dear, save in your arms, shall I secure content;\n \n But sun and wind are calling me throughout the livelong day\n From distant lands I used to know - from all the Far-Away;\n Oh, Summer\u2019s in the hills again and Summer\u2019s on the sea,\n And summer\u2019s in my heart, and you \u2014 well you must set me free!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Oh, Summer\u2019s in the land again, and Summer\u2019s on the sea;<br \/>\n Across the blue horizon rim the old gods beckon me;<\/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":[251],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-reginald-wright-kauffman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","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=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}