{"id":9165,"date":"2023-02-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2023-02-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:00:00","slug":"the-childrens-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-childrens-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children\u2019s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84031081\/1915-02-04\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Albuquerque Morning Journal, February 4, 1915<\/a>. By Elias Lieberman.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>No tune of tootling fife,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No beat of the rolling drum,<br\/>And yet with the thrill of life<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The hordes of children come,<br\/>Freckled and chubby and lean,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indifferent, good and bad,<br\/>Bedraggled and dirty and clean,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Richly and poorly clad,<br\/>They come on toddling feet<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the schoolhouse door ahead;<br\/>The neighboring alley and street<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Resound to the infant tread.<br\/>Children of those who came<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the land of the promising west,<br\/>Foreign of face and name,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are shoulder to shoulder pressed<br\/>With the youth of the native land<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the quest of truth and light,<br\/>As the valorous little band<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Trudges to left and right.<br\/>Creed and color and race<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unite from the ends of the earth,<br\/>Blending each noble trace<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the pride of a glorious birth.<br\/>Race and hate and the past<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fuse in a melting heat<br\/>As the little hearts beat fast<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the stir of a common beat,<br\/>A fresher brawn and brain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the stock which the fates destroy<br\/>Belong to the cosmic strain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of American girl and boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Albuquerque Morning Journal, February 4, 1915. By Elias Lieberman. No tune of tootling fife,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No beat of the rolling drum,And yet with the thrill of life&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The hordes of children come,Freckled and chubby and lean,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indifferent, good and bad,Bedraggled and dirty and clean,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Richly and poorly clad,They come on toddling feet&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the schoolhouse door ahead;The neighboring alley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-morning-journal","category-newspapers","tag-elias-lieberman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}