{"id":7433,"date":"2021-08-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2021-08-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:00:00","slug":"the-measure-of-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-measure-of-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measure of Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Omaha Daily Bee, August 17, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Bayoll ne Trele.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfection is not found in man\u2014
    Then make the best of what men are;
The stunted daisy do not ban;
    Its face doth not the landscape mar;
When eager hands have robbed the fields
    Of what shows fairest to the eye
The stunted flowers remain to bless
    The vision of some passerby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfection is the aim of all,
    But since we\u2019re made of mortal clay
Before we reach it, down we fall
    Yet let not this our hearts dismay;
Some trees tower tall \u2018twixt earth and sky
    And proudly guard the great highway,
But more blest is the scraggly oak,
    Beneath whose boughs the children play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while \u2018mongst humans some attain
    To dizzy heights above their fellows,
Some humbler laborers still remain
    In vales which radiant sunlight mellows;
And while successes crown them not
    Tho\u2019 in men\u2019s eyes they seem deficient
Their work may better stand the test
    When God shall judge with love omniscient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Omaha Daily Bee, August 17, 1913. By Bayoll ne Trele. Perfection is not found in man\u2014    Then make the best of what men are;The stunted daisy do not ban;    Its face doth not the landscape mar;When eager hands have robbed the fields    Of what shows fairest to the eyeThe stunted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-7433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-bayoll-ne-trele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433","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=7433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}