{"id":7934,"date":"2022-02-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2022-02-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T06:00:00","slug":"the-four-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-four-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-02-08\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\"><em>The Sun, February 8, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By McLandburgh Wilson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four little flames, each burning clear,<br>Set out to choose a life career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One said: \u201cWithin a church I\u2019ll burn<br>And thought of men to heaven turn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One said: \u201cI\u2019ll in a lighthouse bide<br>And ships upon the ocean guide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One said: \u201cA scholar\u2019s lamp I\u2019ll be<br>And knowledge shall be spread by me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One said: \u201cUpon a hearth I\u2019ll glow<br>Where only two or three may know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time snuffed the altar candle out,<br>But other faiths still conquered doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beacon into darkness fell<br>But ships had compass, horn and bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scholar\u2019s light went out, but then<br>He still could learn from life and men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the hearthflame ash was cold<br>All earth no substitute could hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, February 8, 1914. By McLandburgh Wilson. Four little flames, each burning clear,Set out to choose a life career. One said: \u201cWithin a church I\u2019ll burnAnd thought of men to heaven turn.\u201d One said: \u201cI\u2019ll in a lighthouse bideAnd ships upon the ocean guide.\u201d One said: \u201cA scholar\u2019s lamp I\u2019ll beAnd knowledge shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-mclandburgh-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","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=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}