{"id":9339,"date":"2023-05-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2023-05-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:00:00","slug":"civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-05-30\/ed-1\/seq-18\/\">Evening Star, May 30, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Civilization! Mighty word,<br\/>Which with all reverence is heard!<br\/>You teach the world to read and write<br\/>And into day transform the night.<br\/>And yet \u2019tis ever in your name<br\/>That armies march to fearful fame.<br\/>As we your blessings great compute,<br\/>We ask one favor more: Don\u2019t shoot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>As pictures fair entrance our eyes,<br\/>And splendid buildings swiftly rise,<br\/>Some of your skill you set apart<br\/>For guns to shatter works of art.<br\/>As Science seeks our lives to save<br\/>She digs anew the soldier\u2019s grave.<br\/>As you are wise and resolute,<br\/>We pray, be generous, Don\u2019t shoot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, May 30, 1915. By Philander Johnson. Civilization! Mighty word,Which with all reverence is heard!You teach the world to read and writeAnd into day transform the night.And yet \u2019tis ever in your nameThat armies march to fearful fame.As we your blessings great compute,We ask one favor more: Don\u2019t shoot! As pictures fair [&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-9339","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\/9339","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=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}