{"id":9413,"date":"2023-06-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2023-06-20T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T05:00:00","slug":"the-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030272\/1915-06-20\/ed-1\/seq-25\/\">The Sun, June 20, 1915<\/a>. By Arthur Wallace Peace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On life\u2019s high trails two pilgrims met,<br>And east and west their ways were set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said one: \u201cI seek the towers tall<br>That shelter Merlin\u2019s mystic hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere shall I learn his secrets grave<br>Until the earth shall be my slave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI leave the valley\u2019s peace to roam;<br>I bid farewell to love and home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said one: \u201cI from the heights come down<br>To seek the valley kind and brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere shall I learn from seed and sod<br>The quickest pathway unto God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere shall I find my heart\u2019s desire<br>Beside a humble hearthside fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then on they went with pitying thought,<br>Each leaving what the other sought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Sun, June 20, 1915. By Arthur Wallace Peace. On life\u2019s high trails two pilgrims met,And east and west their ways were set. Said one: \u201cI seek the towers tallThat shelter Merlin\u2019s mystic hall. \u201cThere shall I learn his secrets graveUntil the earth shall be my slave. \u201cI leave the valley\u2019s peace to roam;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-sun","tag-arthur-wallace-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","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=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}