{"id":8815,"date":"2022-11-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2022-11-25T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:00:00","slug":"the-lawless-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-lawless-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lawless Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-11-25\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, November 25, 1914<\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Dull trade hath bound me in its grip,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And never shall I be free,<br\/>Yet I dream of the decks of a pirate ship<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the roll of the open sea;<br\/>I dream of the pennant dread and black<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That flies at the mast alway,<br\/>As we swoop along on a merchant\u2019s track<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the sting of the flying spray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, I am a law-abiding chap,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet deep in my heart I\u2019d be<br\/>A buccaneer with a scarlet cap<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And a Terror of the Sea;<br\/>As lawless and ruthless a bandit brute<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As history ever knew,<br\/>Roaming the seas in search of loot<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At the head of an evil crew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, here at home I am meek and mild,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A man with a family,<br\/>Yet I dream of deeds that are dark and wild<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And of red, red fights at sea;<br\/>And under my breath I softly hum<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A stave from a pirate song,<br\/>And my throat grows parched for pirate rum,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For I have been dry so long!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>My life is ordered and shaped and bound<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And kept to its rule and line,<br\/>But my thoughts can wander the whole world round<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And my dreams\u2014my dreams are mine!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I hungrily long to be<br\/>A pirate chief on a low, black ship<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the roll of the open sea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, November 25, 1914. By Berton Braley. Dull trade hath bound me in its grip,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And never shall I be free,Yet I dream of the decks of a pirate ship&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the roll of the open sea;I dream of the pennant dread and black&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That flies at the mast alway,As we swoop along on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","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=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}