{"id":8906,"date":"2022-12-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2022-12-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:00:00","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From The Birmingham Age Herald, December 6, 1914<\/a>. By Kate Porter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

When he was a little boy o\u2019 mine,    And e\u2019en before he came,I thought of him as a hero brave,    A man who\u2019d win a name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The little hands that clung to mine    I taught to work alone,The little mind I taught to think    Without depending on my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

I made his little body strong,    I made him brave and true,Although I knew that all the while    From me he further grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Then why should I be sorrowing,    His country\u2019s call has come?Oh, why should I not feel my pride?    He bravely leaves his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

His land is what I trained him for,    So why should tears fall fast?The man-child that I gave to it    Goes forth to serve at last!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

As strong as any mother\u2019s son    I watched him ride away,Yet why do I keep thinking him    My little boy today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Long years it\u2019s been since I last heard    His voice in childish key,And why do I keep hearing now    A little cry for me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u2019Twas sweet to hold his baby form    (How safe he was with me!)But ever in my mind I hold    The man that was to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

And now how fades that vision bright,    This thought of him, in pain!Ah, why can I but see instead    My little boy again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, December 6, 1914. By Kate Porter. When he was a little boy o\u2019 mine,    And e\u2019en before he came,I thought of him as a hero brave,    A man who\u2019d win a name. The little hands that clung to mine    I taught to work alone,The little mind I taught to think    Without depending on my […]<\/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":[206],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-kate-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","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=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}