{"id":7860,"date":"2022-01-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2022-01-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:00:00","slug":"opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Omaha Daily Bee, January 6, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Walter Malone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They do me wrong who say I come no more
    When once I knock and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door,
    And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wail not for precious chances passed away,
    Weep not for golden ages on the wane;
Each night I burn the records of the day;
    At sunrise every soul is born again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped;
    To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb;
My judgements seal the dead past with its dead,
    But never blind a moment yet to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tho\u2019 deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep;
    I lend my arm to all who say \u201cI can!\u201d
No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep
    But yet might rise and be again a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?
    Dost reel from righteous retribution\u2019s blow?
Then turn from blotted archives of the past
    And find the future pages white as snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell;
    Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven;
Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell;
    Each night a start to guide thy feet to heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Omaha Daily Bee, January 6, 1914. By Walter Malone. They do me wrong who say I come no more    When once I knock and fail to find you in;For every day I stand outside your door,    And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","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=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}