{"id":8365,"date":"2022-07-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2022-07-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T05:00:00","slug":"song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/song\/","title":{"rendered":"Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-07-20\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Newark Evening Star, July 20, 1914<\/a>. By William Shenstone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I told my nymph, I told her true,<br\/>My fields were small, my flocks were few;<br\/>While faltering accents spoke my fear<br\/>That Flavia might not prove sincere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Of crops destroyed by vernal cold,<br\/>And vagrant sheep that left my fold\u2014<br\/>Of these she heard, yet bore to hear:<br\/>And is not Flavia then sincere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>How, changed by Fortune\u2019s fickle wind,<br\/>The friends I loved became unkind,<br\/>She heard, and shed a generous tear;<br\/>And is not Flavia then sincere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>How, if she deigned my love to bless,<br\/>My Flavia must not hope for dress\u2014<br\/>This, too, she heard, and smiled to hear.<br\/>And Flavia, sure, must be sincere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Go shear your flocks, ye jovial swains!<br\/>Go reap the plenty of your plains;<br\/>Despoiled of all which you revere,<br\/>I know my Flavia\u2019s love sincere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, July 20, 1914. By William Shenstone. I told my nymph, I told her true,My fields were small, my flocks were few;While faltering accents spoke my fearThat Flavia might not prove sincere. Of crops destroyed by vernal cold,And vagrant sheep that left my fold\u2014Of these she heard, yet bore to hear:And [&hellip;]<\/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":[325],"class_list":["post-8365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-william-shenstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","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=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}