{"id":9211,"date":"2023-03-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2023-03-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:00:00","slug":"what-the-bullet-sang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/what-the-bullet-sang\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Bullet Sang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn91064011\/1915-03-06\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Newark Evening Star, March 6, 1915<\/a>. By Bret Harte.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>O joy of creation<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To be!<br\/>O rapture to fly<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And be free!<br\/>Be the battle lost or won,<br\/>Though its smoke shall hide the sun,<br\/>I shall find my love\u2014the one<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Born for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I shall know him where he stands<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All alone<br\/>With the power in his hands<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not o\u2019erthrown;<br\/>I shall know him by his face<br\/>By his godlike front and grace;<br\/>I shall hold him for a space<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All my own!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>It is he\u2014O my love!<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So bold!<br\/>It is I\u2014all thy love<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Foretold!<br\/>It is I! O love! What bliss!<br\/>Dost thou answer to my kiss?<br\/>O sweetheart! What is this<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lieth there so cold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Newark Evening Star, March 6, 1915. By Bret Harte. O joy of creation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To be!O rapture to fly&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And be free!Be the battle lost or won,Though its smoke shall hide the sun,I shall find my love\u2014the one&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Born for me! I shall know him where he stands&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All aloneWith the power in his hands&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not o\u2019erthrown;I shall know [&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":[71],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-bret-harte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211","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=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}