{"id":9439,"date":"2023-07-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2023-07-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:00:00","slug":"the-pardon-came-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-pardon-came-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pardon Came Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030214\/1915-07-12\/ed-1\/seq-9\/\">New York Tribune, July 12, 1915<\/a>. By Paul Dresser.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A fair-haired boy in a foreign land at sunrise was to die;<br\/>In a prison-cell he sat alone, from his heart there came a sigh.<br\/>Deserted from the ranks, they said, the reason none could say;<br\/>They only knew the orders were that he should die next day.<br\/>And as the hours glided by, a messenger on wings did fly<br\/>To save this boy from such a fate\u2014a pardon, but it came too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The volley was fired at sunrise, just after break of day<br\/>And while the echoes lingered, a soul had passed away<br\/>Into the arms of his Maker, and there to hear his fate;<br\/>A tear, a sigh, a sad \u201cgood-bye\u201d\u2014the pardon came too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And \u2018round the camp-fire burning bright the story then was told;<br\/>How his mother on a dying-bed called for her son so bold;<br\/>He hastened to obey her wish, was captured on the way;<br\/>She never saw her boy so fair\u2014he died at break of day.<br\/>And when the truth at last was known, his innocence at once was shown<br\/>To save from such an unjust fate a pardon sent, but \u2019twas too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Tribune, July 12, 1915. By Paul Dresser. A fair-haired boy in a foreign land at sunrise was to die;In a prison-cell he sat alone, from his heart there came a sigh.Deserted from the ranks, they said, the reason none could say;They only knew the orders were that he should die next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-tribune","category-newspapers","tag-paul-dresser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}