{"id":7484,"date":"2021-09-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2021-09-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T05:00:00","slug":"the-night-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-night-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, September 10, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Eugene Field.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you ever hear the wind go \u201cYooooo?\u201d
    \u2019Tis a pitiful sound to hear!
It seems to thrill you through and through
    With a strange and speechless fear.
\u2019Tis the voice of the night that broods outside
    When folk should be asleep,
And many and many\u2019s the time I\u2019ve cried
To the darkness brooding far and wide
    Over the land and the deep;
\u201cWhom do you want, O lonely night
    That you wail the long hours through?\u201d
And the night would say in its ghostly way:
    Yoooooo!
        Yoooooo!
            Yoooooo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother told me long ago (when I was a little lad)
\u00a0 \u00a0 That when the night went wailing so,
Somebody had been bad;
\u00a0 \u00a0 And then, when I was snug in bed,
Whither I had been sent,
\u00a0 \u00a0 With the blankets pulled up round my head
I\u2019d think of what my mother said
\u00a0 \u00a0 And wonder what boy she meant!
And \u201cWho\u2019s been bad today?\u201d I\u2019d ask
\u00a0 \u00a0 Of the wind that hoarsely blew,
And the voice would say in a meaningful way:
\u00a0 \u00a0 Yoooooo!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Yoooooo!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Yoooooo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That this was true I must allow,
    You\u2019ll not believe it, though!
Yes, though I\u2019m quite a model now
    I was not always so,
And if you doubt what things I say,
    Suppose you make the test;
Suppose, when you\u2019ve been bad some day
    And up to bed are sent away from mother and the rest\u2014
Suppose you ask, \u201cWho has been bad?\u201d
    And then you\u2019ll hear what\u2019s true:
For the wind will moan in its ruefullest tone:
    Yoooooo!
        Yoooooo!
            Yoooooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, September 10, 1913. By Eugene Field. Did you ever hear the wind go \u201cYooooo?\u201d    \u2019Tis a pitiful sound to hear!It seems to thrill you through and through    With a strange and speechless fear.\u2019Tis the voice of the night that broods outside    When folk should be asleep,And many […]<\/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-7484","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\/7484","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=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}