{"id":8469,"date":"2022-09-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2022-09-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:00:00","slug":"a-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1914-09-30\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, September 30, 1914<\/a>. By Edmund Leavey.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Was I waking, was I dreaming?<br\/>In the moonlight\u2019s silver gleaming,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was there something treading softly, in my room?<br\/>Was it gazing, death-like blazing,<br\/>At my eyes which fear was glazing?<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was it human or a spectre from the tomb?<br\/>In my bed I lay, and trembled,<br\/>For \u2019twas nothing it resembled,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not a thing that I had ever seen before;<br\/>And my heart-strings swiftly tightened,<br\/>As I more and more grew frightened,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the window fast was locked, and barred the door.<br\/>Close it came, and nearer, nearer,<br\/>And I saw it plainer, clearer,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Saw it take a hidden shape like all that\u2019s fair;<br\/>And it came and stood before me,<br\/>Stood and stooping slightly o\u2019er me,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gently whispered to me, cringing, crouching there.<br\/>And as it murmured to me,<br\/>All my fear and torment flew me,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And my soul was filled with satan-spawned chagrin.<br\/>For it told me, oh, it told me<br\/>\u201cCome behold me, come behold me,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For you I am as once you might have been.\u201d<br\/>And I drank in all its beauty\u2014<br\/>What was I if true to duty;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I begged it answer me if I could win<br\/>To the grace I had passed blindly,<br\/>For it looked so sad and kindly,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I knew it would have pity for my sin.<br\/>But its answer chilled and stilled me.<br\/>\u201cNo, you\u2019ve killed me, killed me, killed me.<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For it\u2019s you you\u2019ve slain, and I you ne\u2019er can be.\u201d<br\/>Then it left me in the darkness,<br\/>To my soul in all its starkness\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My forgotten better self\u2014my other me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, September 30, 1914. By Edmund Leavey. Was I waking, was I dreaming?In the moonlight\u2019s silver gleaming,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was there something treading softly, in my room?Was it gazing, death-like blazing,At my eyes which fear was glazing?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Was it human or a spectre from the tomb?In my bed I lay, and trembled,For \u2019twas nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-edmund-leavey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","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=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}