{"id":9264,"date":"2023-04-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2023-04-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:00:00","slug":"times-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/times-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn99021999\/1915-04-14\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Omaha Daily Bee, April 14, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I used to call you Carrots, dear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When we were girl and boy;<br\/>I called you Ginger, too\u2014I fear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With purpose to annoy.<br\/>I held my hands above your head<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To warm my fingers cold,<br\/>And it made you cry in the days gone by\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But now your hair is gold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I used to call you Sorrel, dear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When you were small in frocks;<br\/>But now you reign without a peer,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My darling Goldilocks!<br\/>For time\u2019s revenge has come to you,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And I am all forlorn<br\/>In the silken snare of your glorious hair,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With its aureole of morn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I used to call you Candy Drop<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When you were just a girl,<br\/>And Mustard Seed and Sandy Top<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And Dandelion Curl;<br\/>But now your head has won a light<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like fields of summer wheat;<br\/>I long to hold each lock of gold<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That binds me to your feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I used to pull the tangled knots\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh memory of shame!<br\/>I called aloud for water pots<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To quench the ruddy flame.<br\/>But now it is my heart that burns<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While you are cold and coy,<br\/>And my life I\u2019d dare for the golden hair<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That I laughed at when a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Omaha Daily Bee, April 14, 1915. I used to call you Carrots, dear,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When we were girl and boy;I called you Ginger, too\u2014I fear,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With purpose to annoy.I held my hands above your head&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To warm my fingers cold,And it made you cry in the days gone by\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But now your hair is gold! I used to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-omaha-daily-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","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=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}