{"id":8951,"date":"2022-12-31T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T06:00:00","slug":"even-as-the-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/even-as-the-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Even as the Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1914-12-31\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, December 31, 1914<\/a>. By Lord Byron.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There is no hope for nations!\u2014Search the page<br\/>Of many thousand years\u2014the daily scene,<br\/>The flow and ebb of each recurring age,<br\/>The everlasting To Be and Hath Been,<br\/>Hath taught us naught, or little; still we lean<br\/>On things that rot beneath our weight and wear<br\/>Our strength away in wrestling with the air;<br\/>For \u2019tis our nature strikes us down; the beasts<br\/>Slaughtered in hourly hecatombs for feasts<br\/>Are of as high an order\u2014they must go<br\/>Even where their driver goads them, though to slaughter.<br\/>Ye men, who pour your blood for kings as water,<br\/>What have they given your children in return?<br\/>A heritage of servitude and woes,<br\/>A blindfold bondage, where your hire is blows!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, December 31, 1914. By Lord Byron. There is no hope for nations!\u2014Search the pageOf many thousand years\u2014the daily scene,The flow and ebb of each recurring age,The everlasting To Be and Hath Been,Hath taught us naught, or little; still we leanOn things that rot beneath our weight and wearOur strength away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-lord-byron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}