{"id":8586,"date":"2022-11-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2022-11-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:00:00","slug":"prayer-for-home-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/prayer-for-home-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Home Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1914-11-01\/ed-1\/seq-18\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, November 1, 1914<\/a>. By E. A. Guest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>God bless the old United States,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;God keep her people strong;<br\/>God guard the peace within her gates<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And fill her land with song.<br\/>Teach us who dwell beneath her flag<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To cherish peaceful ways;<br\/>To cease of cannon\u2019s strength to brag<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And uniforms to praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>God bless the old United States,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where Freedom\u2019s banner flies,<br\/>Where joyously the mother waits<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With bright and smiling eyes,<br\/>The father, coming home at night,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His day of toiling done,<br\/>And where to meet him with delight<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His happy children run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Here all the tears are honest tears<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And pain is honest pain,<br\/>And here, secure throughout the years<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The toilers\u2019 homes remain.<br\/>Here firesides are not desolate<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By needless shot and shell,<br\/>But honor and reward await<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The men who labor well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>God bless the old United States,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;God bless her people, too;<br\/>God keep forever at her gates<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The old red, white and blue.<br\/>And may its beauties never die,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But every year increase;<br\/>God grant that flag shall ever fly<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Above a land at peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, November 1, 1914. By E. A. Guest. God bless the old United States,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;God keep her people strong;God guard the peace within her gates&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And fill her land with song.Teach us who dwell beneath her flag&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To cherish peaceful ways;To cease of cannon\u2019s strength to brag&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And uniforms to praise. God bless the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-edgar-a-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}