{"id":8217,"date":"2022-05-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2022-05-18T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:00:00","slug":"the-broken-pinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-broken-pinion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Pinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Newark Evening Star, May 18, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Hezekiah Butterworth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walked through the woodland meadows,
    Where sweet the thrushes sing;
And I found on a bed of mosses
    A bird with a broken wing.
I healed its wound, and each morning
    It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
    Never soared as high again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found a young life broken
    By Sin\u2019s seductive art;
And touched with a Christlike pity,
    I took him to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose
    And struggled not in vain;
But the life that Sin had stricken
    Never soared as high again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the bird with a broken pinion
    Kept another from the snare;
And the life that Sin had stricken
    Raised another from despair.
Each loss has its compensation.
    There is healing for every pain;
But the bird with a broken pinion
    Never soars as high again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, May 18, 1914. By Hezekiah Butterworth. I walked through the woodland meadows,    Where sweet the thrushes sing;And I found on a bed of mosses    A bird with a broken wing.I healed its wound, and each morning    It sang its old sweet strain,But the bird with the broken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-hezekiah-butterworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","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=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}