{"id":7857,"date":"2022-01-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2022-01-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T06:00:00","slug":"the-psychological-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-psychological-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychological Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, January 5, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 HE.
We two may never meet again;
\u00a0 \u00a0 The world is wide, seas may divide us;
Why should we squander or disdain
\u00a0 \u00a0 This chance with which Fate has supplied us?
Why should we dream of future bliss,
\u00a0 \u00a0 A present gladness blindly losing?
Tomorrow you may crave the kiss
\u00a0 \u00a0 That you are stubbornly refusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow, when it is too late,
    When leagues between us may be lying,
You may bemoan your lonely fate
    And waste the hours in futile sighing;
Perhaps within a mile or two
    The ways we go may be diverging;
Why scorn the kiss I offer you?
    Tomorrow I may not be urging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              SHE.
We two may never meet, I know,
    And splashing seas may lie between us;
Hereafter there may never grow
    A potted palm or vine to screen us;
I may, as you have said, give way
    To useless sighing and to sorrow,
And mourn the chance I have today,
    When I sit down to think, tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, even if our ways shall part
    And if our hopes must bloom asunder,
Shall happiness avoid my heart,
    And no fond lips press mine, I wonder?
Nay, though through No Man\u2019s Land I fare,
    I\u2019ll meet some brave one\u2014never doubt it\u2014
Who will gladly embrace me there,
    Without first lecturing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, January 5, 1914. By Henry Howland. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 HE.We two may never meet again;\u00a0 \u00a0 The world is wide, seas may divide us;Why should we squander or disdain\u00a0 \u00a0 This chance with which Fate has supplied us?Why should we dream of future bliss,\u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","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=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}