{"id":8485,"date":"2022-10-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2022-10-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:00:00","slug":"the-soldiers-parting-hymn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-soldiers-parting-hymn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soldiers\u2019 Parting Hymn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1914-10-04\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, October 4, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Abide with me, fast falls the eventide,<br\/>Keep safe my loved ones, be their strength and guide.<br\/>If never more my own dear land I see,<br\/>O thou who changest not, abide with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>One life I have to give, it is my all\u2014<br\/>And God be with me, if I live or fall!<br\/>When other helpers fail and comforts flee,<br\/>In stranger lands, O Lord, abide with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Swift to its close ebbs out life\u2019s little day,<br\/>Dear hearts, forget me not when far away;<br\/>Upon the battlefield, upon the sea,<br\/>Whate\u2019er my fate, O Lord, abide with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>So breathed the sad strains of the parting hymn,<br\/>Farewells were said, and eyes with tears grew dim;<br\/>\u201cAbide with me\u201d\u2014a prayer it seemed to be\u2014<br\/>In Life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, October 4, 1914. Abide with me, fast falls the eventide,Keep safe my loved ones, be their strength and guide.If never more my own dear land I see,O thou who changest not, abide with me! One life I have to give, it is my all\u2014And God be with me, if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","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=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}