{"id":9286,"date":"2023-05-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2023-05-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T05:00:00","slug":"war-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/war-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"War Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-05-05\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, May 5, 1915<\/a>. By C. Fox Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s go aft\u201d\u2026 and out she slides,<br\/>Pitching when she meets the tides\u2026<br\/>She for whom our cruisers keep<br\/>Lordly vigil in the deep\u2026<br\/>Sink or swim, lads, war or no,<br\/>Let the poor old hooker go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, hull down, will England\u2019s shore,<br\/>Smudged and faint, be seen no more;<br\/>Soon the following gulls return<br\/>Where the friendly dock-lights burn\u2026<br\/>Soon the cold stars, climbing high,<br\/>March across the empty sky\u2026<br\/>Empty seas beyond her bow,<br\/>(Lord, she\u2019s on her lonesome now.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When the white fog, stooping low,<br\/>Folds in darkness friend and foe\u2026<br\/>When the fast great liners creep<br\/>Veiled and silent through the deep\u2026<br\/>When the hostile searchlight\u2019s eye<br\/>Sweeps across the midnight sky,<br\/>Lord of light and darkness, then,<br\/>Stretch Thy wing o\u2019er merchantmen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>When the waters known of old<br\/>Death in dreadful shape may hold\u2026<br\/>When the mine\u2019s black treachery<br\/>Secret walks the insulted sea\u2026<br\/>(Lest the people wait in vain<br\/>For their cattle and their grain),<br\/>Since thy name is mercy, then,<br\/>Lord, be kind to merchantmen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, May 5, 1915. By C. Fox Smith. \u201cLet\u2019s go aft\u201d\u2026 and out she slides,Pitching when she meets the tides\u2026She for whom our cruisers keepLordly vigil in the deep\u2026Sink or swim, lads, war or no,Let the poor old hooker go. Soon, hull down, will England\u2019s shore,Smudged and faint, be seen no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-c-fox-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}