{"id":8061,"date":"2022-04-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2022-04-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T05:00:00","slug":"the-angels-whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-angels-whisper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Angels\u2019  Whisper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-04-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age Herald, April 3, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The baby was sleeping, its mother was weeping,<br>For her husband was out on the wild raging sea;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And the tempest was swelling<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Round the fisherman\u2019s dwelling<br>And she cried, \u201cDermot, darling, O come back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her beads while she numbered, the baby still slumbered,<br>And smiled in her face as she bended her knee;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; O blessed be that warning,<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; My child thy sleep adorning<br>For I know that the Angels are whispering with thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while they are keeping bright watch o\u2019er thy sleeping,<br>O pray to them softly, my baby, with me;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And say thou would\u2019st rather<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; They\u2019d watch o\u2019er thy father<br>For I know that the Angels are whispering with thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dawn of the morning saw Dermot returning,<br>And the wife wept with joy her babe\u2019s father to see;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And closely caressing<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Her child with a blessing<br>Said, \u201cI knew that the Angels were whispering with thee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, April 3, 1914. By Anonymous. The baby was sleeping, its mother was weeping,For her husband was out on the wild raging sea;&nbsp; &nbsp; And the tempest was swelling&nbsp; &nbsp; Round the fisherman\u2019s dwellingAnd she cried, \u201cDermot, darling, O come back to me.\u201d Her beads while she numbered, the baby still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-anonymous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","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=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}