{"id":8378,"date":"2022-07-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2022-07-22T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:00:00","slug":"the-buoy-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-buoy-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buoy Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1914-07-22\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Newark Evening Star, July 22, 1914<\/a>. By Chart Pitt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The buoy-bell\u2019s lone challenge wakes a dream of long ago,<br\/>When the happy sound of church bells rang out across the snow.<br\/>It sounds its sullen warning, o\u2019er the murmur of the reef,<br\/>Where heartless tides are sobbing, like a lost-soul grief.<br\/>There was song and happy laughter, and the glint of love-lit eyes,<br\/>Now listless snow is falling from the steel-gray Arctic skies.<br\/>The angry surf is booming on the stubborn rock-bound shore,<br\/>While the memory ship is drifting to the happy days of yore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Northern wolf is calling from the headland\u2019s wind-swept height.<br\/>Hark! He sounds the call of hunger, to curse the Arctic night.<br\/>The time-worn year is dying and the new waits at the door,<br\/>The beacon light is blinking from the shadows of the shore.<br\/>The mystic North is sleeping \u2018neath the blanket of the snows,<br\/>But weary hearts are dreaming of the fragrant Southern rose.<br\/>The wild surf sounds its challenge and the shore flings back reply\u2014<br\/>The world is bound in chains of war, \u2018neath the dreary Arctic sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, July 22, 1914. By Chart Pitt. The buoy-bell\u2019s lone challenge wakes a dream of long ago,When the happy sound of church bells rang out across the snow.It sounds its sullen warning, o\u2019er the murmur of the reef,Where heartless tides are sobbing, like a lost-soul grief.There was song and happy laughter, [&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":[80],"class_list":["post-8378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-chart-pitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378","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=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}