{"id":9183,"date":"2023-02-19T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9183"},"modified":"2023-02-19T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T06:00:00","slug":"the-sorrowfullest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-sorrowfullest-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sorrowfullest Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1915-02-19\/ed-1\/seq-14\/\">Newark Evening Star, February 19, 1915<\/a>. By H. M.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the sorrowfullest thing to know,\u201d<br\/>The Persian said, \u201cthe coming of the woe,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And have no power to stay<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The inevitable day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>But he who had the power to bless, and chose<br\/>Iron and blood, and now foresees the close\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I reckon such a king<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Earth\u2019s sorrowfullest thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>He living plumbs the dark abyss of hell,<br\/>Who shudders for the land he loves so well,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And knows, beyond recall,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Himself the cause of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, February 19, 1915. By H. M. \u201cThis is the sorrowfullest thing to know,\u201dThe Persian said, \u201cthe coming of the woe,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And have no power to stay&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The inevitable day.\u201d But he who had the power to bless, and choseIron and blood, and now foresees the close\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I reckon such a king&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Earth\u2019s sorrowfullest thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-h-m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183","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=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}