{"id":7263,"date":"2021-07-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2021-07-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T05:00:00","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-07-10\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, July 10, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Several hundred girls disappear every year in the big cities.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014and who will ever find her?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014the way so many go;\n Not a trace did Rosa leave behind her.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That\u2019s the way\u2014THEY always fix it so.\n Rosa\u2014she was young and very pretty\n \u00a0 \u00a0 (That\u2019s the kind of girl THEY like to snare);\n So she\u2019s posted \u201cmissing\u201d in the city,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 God knows where!\n \n Rosa, being young, was fond of pleasure,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Life to her was something blithe and sweet,\n So THEY planned and plotted at their leisure,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 So THEY set the trap beneath her feet;\n Innocent and gay and all unknowing,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Trusting to the friends that led her on,\n Unaware the road that she was going.\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Rosa\u2019s gone!\n \n Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014and patiently we\u2019ve sought her,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Vainly followed every trail or clue\u2014\n Mothers, think of Rosa as YOUR daughter,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Think of this as happening to YOU!\n Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014like other girls before her,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Knowing not the net till it was drawn.\n How shall all our mourning now restore her?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Rosa\u2019s gone!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014and who will ever find her?<br \/>\n     Rosa\u2019s gone\u2014the way so many go;<br \/>\n Not a trace did Rosa leave behind her.<br \/>\n     That\u2019s the way\u2014THEY always fix it so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263","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=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}