{"id":7901,"date":"2022-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2022-01-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T06:00:00","slug":"a-duo-in-hades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-duo-in-hades\/","title":{"rendered":"A Duo In Hades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Omaha Daily Bee, January 24, 1914<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Adam:
Thousands of years, my dear, have ebbed away
Since that forever memorable day
When you discovered the Forbidden Fruit,
And, knowing I should like it, led me to \u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Eve:
And willingly you went, as I recall.
Altho\u2019, of course, they blamed me for the Fall.
Till that momentous day our life was X;
We ate the apple, and discovered\u2014Sex!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Adam:
And both, as I recall, were tickled pink,
And talked of nothing else. I sometimes think
We gabbed so much that God himself was bored,
And sent an Angel with a flaming sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Eve:
I spoke today with one but newly come.
He tells me that the world is all a-hum
With the self-same discovery that we
In Eden made, beneath the Knowledge Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Adam:
And nought, I hear, their childish prattle checks;
They gab of Sex, and Sex, and Sex, and Sex.
In books, and plays, and art this subject rules;
I\u2019m told they even teach it in the schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Eve:
The shade but newly-come to Hades saith
That men of sense are being bored to death;
And tho\u2019 he\u2019s damned he counts himself as blest
To \u2018scape from Sex, and have eternal rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Omaha Daily Bee, January 24, 1914.     Adam:Thousands of years, my dear, have ebbed awaySince that forever memorable dayWhen you discovered the Forbidden Fruit,And, knowing I should like it, led me to \u2019t.     Eve:And willingly you went, as I recall.Altho\u2019, of course, they blamed me for the Fall.Till that momentous […]<\/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-7901","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\/7901","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=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}