{"id":8152,"date":"2022-05-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2022-05-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:00:00","slug":"the-girl-i-left-behind-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-girl-i-left-behind-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl I Left Behind Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 2, 1914<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dames of France are fond and free,
    And Flemish lips are willing,
And soft the maids of Italy,
    And Spanish eyes are thrilling;
Still though I bask beneath their smile,
    Their charms all fail to bind me,
And my heart falls back to Erin\u2019s isle,
    To the girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For she\u2019s as fair as Shannon\u2019s side,
    And purer than its water,
But she refused to be my bride,
    Though many a year I sought her;
Yet, since to France I sail\u2019d away,
    Her letters oft remind me,
That I promis\u2019d never to gainsay
    The girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says, \u201cMy own dear love, come home,
    My friends are rich and many,
Or else abroad with you I\u2019ll roam,
    A soldier stout as any;
If you\u2019ll not come, nor let me go,
    I\u2019ll think you have resigned me.\u201d
My heart nigh broke when I answered, \u201cNo,\u201d
    To the girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For never shall my true love brave
    A life of war and toiling,
And never as a skulking slave
    I\u2019ll tread my native soil on;
But were it free, or to be freed,
    The battle\u2019s close would find me
To Ireland bound, nor message need
    From the girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, May 2, 1914. The dames of France are fond and free,    And Flemish lips are willing,And soft the maids of Italy,    And Spanish eyes are thrilling;Still though I bask beneath their smile,    Their charms all fail to bind me,And my heart falls back to Erin\u2019s isle,  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}