{"id":9253,"date":"2023-04-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2023-04-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:00:00","slug":"the-illusion-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-illusion-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1915-04-03\/ed-1\/seq-12\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, April 3, 1915<\/a>. By Richard Le Gallienne.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>War<br\/>I abhor.<br\/>And yet, how sweet<br\/>The sound along the marching street<br\/>Of drum and fife, and I forget<br\/>Wet eyes of widows, and forget<br\/>Broken old mothers, and the whole<br\/>Dark butchery without a soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Without a soul, save this bright drink<br\/>Of heady music, sweet as hell;<br\/>And even my peace-abiding feet<br\/>Go marching with the marching street,<br\/>For yonder, yonder comes the fife,<br\/>And what care I for human life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And tears fill my astonished eyes,<br\/>And my full heart is like to break;<br\/>And yet, \u2019tis all embannered lies,<br\/>A dream those little drummers make.<br\/>Oh, it is wickedness to clothe<br\/>Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks,<br\/>Hidden in music like a queen,<br\/>That in a garden of glory walks<br\/>Till good men love the thing they loathe.<br\/>Art, thou hast many infamies,<br\/>But not an infamy like this.<br\/>Oh, stop the fife and still the drum,<br\/>And show the monster as she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, April 3, 1915. By Richard Le Gallienne. WarI abhor.And yet, how sweetThe sound along the marching streetOf drum and fife, and I forgetWet eyes of widows, and forgetBroken old mothers, and the wholeDark butchery without a soul. Without a soul, save this bright drinkOf heady music, sweet as hell;And even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee","tag-richard-le-gallienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}