{"id":8493,"date":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:00:00","slug":"you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/you\/","title":{"rendered":"You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1914-10-11\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, October 11, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And take my choice of all earth\u2019s treasures, too,<br\/>And ask from heaven whatso\u2019er willed,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019d ask for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>No man I\u2019d envy, neither low nor high,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor king in castle old or palace new;<br\/>I\u2019d hold Golconda\u2019s mines less rich than I,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If I had you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Toil and privation, poverty and care<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Undaunted, I\u2019d defy, nor future woo,<br\/>Having my wife, no jewels else I\u2019d wear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If she were you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Little I\u2019d care how lovely she might be,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How graced with every charm, how fond, how true,<br\/>E\u2019en though perfection, she\u2019d be naught to me<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Were she not you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There is more charm for my true loving heart,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In everything you think or say, or do,<br\/>Than all the joys of heaven could e\u2019er impart,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because it\u2019s you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, October 11, 1914. If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And take my choice of all earth\u2019s treasures, too,And ask from heaven whatso\u2019er willed,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I\u2019d ask for you. No man I\u2019d envy, neither low nor high,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nor king in castle old or palace new;I\u2019d hold Golconda\u2019s mines less rich than I,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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-8493","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\/8493","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=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}