{"id":8939,"date":"2022-12-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2022-12-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:00:00","slug":"the-tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-tree-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1914-12-19\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, December 19, 1914<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>In his mother\u2019s sacred eyes,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lit from God\u2019s own altar place,<br\/>Earth grows heaven, and gray time dies<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the infant\u2019s smiling face.<br\/>From the shroud of withered years<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Love and hope come young again,<br\/>And the heart awakened hears<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Songs that make the life of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Children\u2019s lightsome laughter rings;<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dull waste places hear their tread,<br\/>And the gleams of gracious wings<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Light old chambers of the dead.<br\/>All bright shapes of memory,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All glad dreams of youth and love,<br\/>Meet about the Christmas tree<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Underneath the mystic dove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Time and fate are babbling words,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vain vibrations of the tongue,<br\/>Since the song God\u2019s singing birds<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O\u2019er the Babe of Bethlehem sung.<br\/>Child of death that was to be,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Child of love and life with men<br\/>Round the holy Christmas tree<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Make us children, too, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Eyes that are love\u2019s deathless shrine,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where our holiest prayers arise,<br\/>Blest and blessing, dear, divine,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Little children\u2019s happy eyes,<br\/>In your light the dark years change,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From your light all foul things flee,<br\/>And all sweet hopes soar and range<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Round the Christ Child\u2019s Christmas tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, December 19, 1914. In his mother\u2019s sacred eyes,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lit from God\u2019s own altar place,Earth grows heaven, and gray time dies&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the infant\u2019s smiling face.From the shroud of withered years&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Love and hope come young again,And the heart awakened hears&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Songs that make the life of men. Children\u2019s lightsome laughter rings;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dull waste places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","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=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}