{"id":9563,"date":"2023-07-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2023-07-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:00:00","slug":"the-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1915-07-24\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Evening Star, July 24, 1915<\/a>. By Philander Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Dove of Peace exclaimed one day:<br\/>\u201cConditions fill me with dismay,<br\/>I will disguise myself and seek<br\/>The quiet dear to one so meek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>On land she hoped, afar from strife,<br\/>To lead a simple barnyard life,<br\/>But shuddered with incessant dread<br\/>As cannon rattled overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>She trimmed new plumage and in state<br\/>The eagle sought to imitate,<br\/>Until an airship hurried by<br\/>And sent her trembling from the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Then as a sea gull forth she flew<br\/>Where waves were still and skies were blue<br\/>Until a shock disturbed the scene<br\/>Caused by a reckless submarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And so she turns on weary wing,<br\/>Still hopeful that her wandering<br\/>On land or in the sky or sea<br\/>May find some spot from terror free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Star, July 24, 1915. By Philander Johnson. The Dove of Peace exclaimed one day:\u201cConditions fill me with dismay,I will disguise myself and seekThe quiet dear to one so meek.\u201d On land she hoped, afar from strife,To lead a simple barnyard life,But shuddered with incessant dreadAs cannon rattled overhead. She trimmed new plumage [&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-9563","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\/9563","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=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}