{"id":8224,"date":"2022-05-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2022-05-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T05:00:00","slug":"dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88064458\/1914-05-21\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\"><em>The Voice of the People, May 21, 1914<\/em><\/a><em>. By Covington Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t listen to the fairies, son, don\u2019t try to leave the clods<br>To wander off in Eden with the children of the gods;<br>Don\u2019t worry when the hunters hush the nest-notes of the dove,<br>Nor fret when gold is offered for the broken lute of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t listen to the fairies, son, don\u2019t leave the Land of Trade<br>To seek the laughing waters and the woodland\u2019s mystic shade;<br>Don\u2019t grieve because they leave you and don\u2019t answer when they call\u2014<br>Their tongues are tipt with honey\u2014they are lotus eaters all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t listen to the fairies, son, don\u2019t watch the star that gleams<br>To guide you up the mountain to the throneroom of your dreams;<br>Don\u2019t turn aside to catch the light that showers from life\u2019s wings,<br>Lest you forget the ledger is the holiest of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t listen to the fairies, son, don\u2019t be a fool and quit<br>The sacred House of Dollars just at Music\u2019s feet to sit;<br>Don\u2019t heed them when they whisper, \u201cin your higher longings trust,\u201d<br>For all except the cashbox is as ashes and as dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Voice of the People, May 21, 1914. By Covington Hall. Don\u2019t listen to the fairies, son, don\u2019t try to leave the clodsTo wander off in Eden with the children of the gods;Don\u2019t worry when the hunters hush the nest-notes of the dove,Nor fret when gold is offered for the broken lute of love. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-voice-of-the-people","tag-covington-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","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=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}