{"id":8904,"date":"2022-12-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2022-12-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T06:00:00","slug":"the-battle-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-battle-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1914-12-04\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, December 4, 1914<\/a>. By John G. Whittier.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>What means the gladness of the plain,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This joy of eve and morn,<br\/>The mirth that shakes the beard of grain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yellow locks of corn?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Ah! eyes may well be full of tears,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And hearts with hate are hot,<br\/>But even-paced come \u2018round the years,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And nature changes not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>She meets with smiles our bitter grief,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With songs our groans of pain;<br\/>She mocks with tint of flower and leaf<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The war field\u2019s crimson stain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Still, in the cannon\u2019s pause, we hear<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Her sweet thanksgiving psalm;<br\/>Too near to God to doubt or fear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She shares the eternal calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>She knows the seed lies safe below<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fires that burst and burn;<br\/>For all the tears of blood we sow<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She waits the rich return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>She sees with clearer eye than ours<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The good of suffering born\u2014<br\/>The hearts that blossom like her flowers,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And ripen like her corn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>O, give to us, in times like these,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The vision of her eyes;<br\/>And make her fields and fruited trees<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our golden prophecies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>O, give to us her finer ear!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Above this stormy din.<br\/>We, too, would hear the bells of cheer<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ring peace and freedom in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, December 4, 1914. By John G. Whittier. What means the gladness of the plain,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This joy of eve and morn,The mirth that shakes the beard of grain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yellow locks of corn? Ah! eyes may well be full of tears,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And hearts with hate are hot,But even-paced come \u2018round the years,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And nature [&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":[192],"class_list":["post-8904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-john-g-whittier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904","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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}