{"id":8396,"date":"2022-08-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2022-08-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:00:00","slug":"the-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1914-08-02\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">The Sun, August 2, 1914<\/a>. By McLandburgh Wilson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>This earth is as a mighty drum<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Upon which beat the strokes of Fate,<br\/>While countermarching go and come<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The forces which decide our state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Advance! and Science, Letters, Art<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Press forward, gaining every field;<br\/>Their banners conquer every heart<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And unknown foes before them yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Retreat! and dark barbaric hordes<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enwrap all learning in a pall,<br\/>And Progress sinks beneath their swords<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As Greece and Rome were fain to fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Thus victory with each is cast,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The endless battle never won,<br\/>Until upon the Drum at last<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Shall beat the Dirge and all be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, August 2, 1914. By McLandburgh Wilson. This earth is as a mighty drum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Upon which beat the strokes of Fate,While countermarching go and come&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The forces which decide our state. Advance! and Science, Letters, Art&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Press forward, gaining every field;Their banners conquer every heart&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And unknown foes before them yield. Retreat! and dark barbaric hordes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enwrap all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-mclandburgh-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","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=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}