{"id":8442,"date":"2022-09-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2022-09-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T05:00:00","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-09-03\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, September 3, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019Tis sweet to sing vacation days<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because, you see, they\u2019re ended;<br\/>From mountain inns and summer bays<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2018Most everyone has wended<br\/>Back to the walks where duty lies<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And daily tasks are calling.<br\/>Ere long will clouds obscure the skies<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And winter rains be falling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In retrospect, methinks, we drain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A cup of sweetest pleasure<br\/>And wonder if we\u2019ll e\u2019er again<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Have granted us a measure<br\/>Of summer joys so brimming full<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of mirthfulness and laughter,<br\/>With scarce a thought of labors dull<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And troubles to come after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t recall the insect swarm<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That started us to swearing,<br\/>The sultry days and nights so warm<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We almost were despairing;<br\/>The stuffy room, the tiresome bed,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The food we vowed was \u201crotten\u201d\u2014<br\/>Though but a week or two has sped,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;These ills are all forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, September 3, 1914. \u2019Tis sweet to sing vacation days&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because, you see, they\u2019re ended;From mountain inns and summer bays&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2018Most everyone has wendedBack to the walks where duty lies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And daily tasks are calling.Ere long will clouds obscure the skies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And winter rains be falling. In retrospect, methinks, we drain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A cup of sweetest pleasureAnd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}