{"id":9150,"date":"2023-01-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2023-01-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:00:00","slug":"children-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/children-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1915-01-26\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\">The Sun, January 26, 1915<\/a>. By H. S. Haskins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Gone are the hearts that bore them,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gone with the dead and missed.<br\/>Lost are the hands which soothed them,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Still are the lips that kissed.<br\/>Silenced the songs which lulled them,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sweet at the close of day,<br\/>Oh, for the angel mothers<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So far, so far away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Who is to plan their future?<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who is to teach them games?<br\/>Who is to answer questions?<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who is to give them names?<br\/>Where winds the path tomorrow?<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where runs the road next year?<br\/>Who is to guide their footsteps<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Up through the hills from here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, January 26, 1915. By H. S. Haskins. Gone are the hearts that bore them,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gone with the dead and missed.Lost are the hands which soothed them,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Still are the lips that kissed.Silenced the songs which lulled them,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sweet at the close of day,Oh, for the angel mothers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So far, so far away! Who is to plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-h-s-haskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","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=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}