{"id":7804,"date":"2021-12-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2021-12-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T06:00:00","slug":"the-red-cross-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-red-cross-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Cross Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Washington Herald, December 11, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Emma Frances Lee Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have turned aside from the world and its pride
    The strength of my love to prove;
I have set my pace to a wonderful race,
    With feet that are swift to move\u2014
Be it soon or late\u2014to serve, or to wait\u2014
    At the cry of the terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through flood and flame, in the Master\u2019s name,
    Comfort and help I bring;
My mission blest is to offer rest
    And peace, to the suffering;
I give no heed to rank or to creed;
    I look not askance at shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the wreck-strewn trail of the howling gale,
    I hasten with warmth and cheer;
O\u2019er the shrouded head of the mangled dead,
    I bend with a pitying tear;
To famine\u2019s white lip my cup I slip;
    I quiet the mourner\u2019s wail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of the knell of hurtling shell,
    The clangor of crashing steel,
My watch I keep where the wounded sleep,
    And the dead lie heel to heel;
I speed the soul to its happy goal\u2014
    A tireless sentinel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From East to West on my merciful quest,
    I follow the Red Cross far;
Under Southern skies I have seen it rise;
    It glows \u2018neath the Northern star;
Its crimson sign is a badge divine,
    Mid the panoply of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Washington Herald, December 11, 1913. By Emma Frances Lee Smith. I have turned aside from the world and its pride    The strength of my love to prove;I have set my pace to a wonderful race,    With feet that are swift to move\u2014Be it soon or late\u2014to serve, or to wait\u2014    […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-7804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-herald","tag-emma-frances-lee-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804","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=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}