{"id":9251,"date":"2023-04-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2023-04-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:00:00","slug":"the-merry-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-merry-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merry Robin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-04-01\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, April 1, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A robin sat upon a limb,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A-singin\u2019 very jolly.<br\/>\u201cOh bird,\u201d sez I, I sez to him,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cYou should be melancholy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t any children small,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No friends nor no relations;<br\/>You\u2019ve got no certainty at all<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of lodgin\u2019 or of rations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t got no place to went,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You loafer in a tree, you!<br\/>Or if you have, I bet a cent<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No one is glad to see you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The robin stopped his song an\u2019 said,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cExcuse me while I snicker.<br\/>It is the narrow life you\u2019ve led<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That makes you such a kicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis limb I sit on ain\u2019t so fine<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And scant is my apparel;<br\/>A simple sort o\u2019 feed is mine,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yet I love to carol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile thinkin\u2019 on my state of ease<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My soul in song relaxes.<br\/>I go an\u2019 come jest when I please<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An\u2019 never pay no taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, April 1, 1915. By Philander Johnson. A robin sat upon a limb,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A-singin\u2019 very jolly.\u201cOh bird,\u201d sez I, I sez to him,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cYou should be melancholy! \u201cYou haven\u2019t any children small,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No friends nor no relations;You\u2019ve got no certainty at all&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of lodgin\u2019 or of rations. \u201cYou haven\u2019t got no place to went,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You loafer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-philander-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","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=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}