{"id":8403,"date":"2022-08-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2022-08-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:00:00","slug":"war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From The Times Dispatch, August 9, 1914<\/a>. By H. W.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat,\u201d one asks, \u201cof the trumpet blast    And banners in the dawn?And what of the grain in the fallow field    When the husbandman has gone?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

This: If ye know not how to wield    The sword with a steady handThe grain that stood in your broad, green field    Shall be reaped by an alien band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

This: If ye be not strong to fight    And ready to shield and save,The woman and child shall starve and die,    Or live as the foeman\u2019s slave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Shelter and food and wife and child\u2014    Since ever the world began\u2014The strong shall win and the strong shall keep    So long as man is man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The weapons ye use are greater far    Than those the cave-man bore;The battle line is farther flung    Than it was in the time before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

But the things ye strive for have not changed,    Nor shall they change at all,And the strong shall win and the strong shall keep,    And the weak shall surely fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Justice and pity, and mercy? Yes.    But they die without the sword.For wrong is weak and fails in the end,    But it does not yield to a \u2014 word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

And life and love, and the right to live\u2014    Since ever the world began,They have gone to the clean and true and strong,    And shall\u2014while man is man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Times Dispatch, August 9, 1914. By H. W. \u201cWhat,\u201d one asks, \u201cof the trumpet blast    And banners in the dawn?And what of the grain in the fallow field    When the husbandman has gone?\u201d This: If ye know not how to wield    The sword with a steady handThe grain that stood in your broad, green field    Shall be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-times-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","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=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}