{"id":8154,"date":"2022-05-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2022-05-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:00:00","slug":"the-summer-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-summer-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-05-03\/ed-1\/seq-61\/\"><em>The Sun, May 3, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Ninette M. Lowater.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear the dancing on the roof, the fairy footed rain!<br>I hear her singing in the eaves, and tapping at the pane;<br>I hear her calling to the flowers and to the creeping grass,<br>And they come laughing up to greet her footsteps as they pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She brings the promise of the year, of food for hungry herds,<br>Shelter and food for wildwood things, and for the singing birds;<br>And food for man, the dainty fruits, the yellow wheat and corn,<br>And all the largesse of the earth are of her bounty born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sing high and sweet, O summer rain, with verdure crown the hills,<br>Fill to the brim our wells and springs, fill all the little rills;<br>Earth laughs with joy to see you spread your banners in the sky,<br>For in the bounteous gifts you bring our wealth and welfare lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, May 3, 1914. By Ninette M. Lowater. I hear the dancing on the roof, the fairy footed rain!I hear her singing in the eaves, and tapping at the pane;I hear her calling to the flowers and to the creeping grass,And they come laughing up to greet her footsteps as they pass. She [&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":[240],"class_list":["post-8154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-ninette-m-lowater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154","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=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}