{"id":9599,"date":"2023-08-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2023-08-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:00:00","slug":"lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1915-08-02\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 2, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A little boy and girl at school,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Learning the self-same things;<br\/>Laughing and playing in the sun,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dear little wanderlings.<br\/>And he says to her, earnest-wise,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And shyly droops his head,<br\/>\u201cI love you most of all the world,\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAnd I love you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A man and woman, calm, sedate,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Learning the self-same things<br\/>From life\u2019s great book, grown keen and wise<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From world-wide wanderings.<br\/>And he to her says, earnest-wise,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And proudly lifts his head,<br\/>\u201cI love you better than my life,\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAnd I love you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>A man and woman, old and old,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Down life\u2019s last slope they tread;<br\/>All bent and shrunken is her form,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And silvery white his head.<br\/>And soft he says, \u201cMy dear, my dear,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019ve many years been wed,<br\/>But still I love you more and more.\u201d<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI love you too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 2, 1915. A little boy and girl at school,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Learning the self-same things;Laughing and playing in the sun,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dear little wanderlings.And he says to her, earnest-wise,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And shyly droops his head,\u201cI love you most of all the world,\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cAnd I love you,\u201d she said. A man and woman, calm, sedate,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Learning the self-same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}