{"id":8020,"date":"2022-03-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T05:00:00","slug":"seeing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/seeing-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Times Dispatch, March 17, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Thomas Lomax Hunter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCome and go a-journeying and see the world,\u201d you cry,
    \u201cSixty miles an hour on a flying Pullman whirled.
See the great strange cities and their peoples as we fly.
    Would you stay forever here and never see the world?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come with me a-walking on the path beside the brook;
    There are many wonders there if you will pause to see;
Elfin things and faery, if you will stop to look.
    If you would really see the world, come and walk with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe the tonic odor of the darkling piney woods.
    Search beneath the needles where the first arbutus blows.
Come on Pan a-brooding in his earliest vernal mood,
    Hidden in the rushes where the frolic streamlet flows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come, and I will show you where the merry chipmunks dwell;
    Where the timid wood-birds build that do not flock with man;
And where the hermit woodchuck has dug his secret cell,
    And all the shy Arcadians who hear the pipes of Pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCome,\u201d you cry, \u201cand see the world across the Seven Seas,
    The pyramids and Palestine and ancient Greece and Rome.\u201d
But why should I go seeking those when I have ever these
    Enchantments and adventures within a mile of home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I only have to wait, the seasons come to me;
    Flying each its colors and bugled by its birds.
What is there more wonderful or fair across the sea
    That I should go a-hurrying with the harried tourist herds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you have fled a thousand miles in a touring car,
\u00a0 \u00a0 I have just been tramping through the hills and meadows near.
You have seen the wonders of a fleeting world and far,
\u00a0 \u00a0 But I have been a-walking and seen my world right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Times Dispatch, March 17, 1914. By Thomas Lomax Hunter. \u201cCome and go a-journeying and see the world,\u201d you cry,    \u201cSixty miles an hour on a flying Pullman whirled.See the great strange cities and their peoples as we fly.    Would you stay forever here and never see the world?\u201d Come with me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-times-dispatch","tag-thomas-lomax-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","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=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}