{"id":9608,"date":"2023-08-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/afterglow\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T05:00:00","slug":"afterglow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/afterglow\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterglow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-08-09\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, August 9, 1915<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever heard, in the lonesome night,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The call of the wind-swept sea,<br\/>Mighty and strong the great seasong,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ever pitched in a minor key?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever stood on a barren plain<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the red sun sank below<br\/>The curve of the world and the night was hurled<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like a pall o\u2019er the afterglow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever seen a single leaf<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Alone in the wintry blast,<br\/>Like and old man, gray, outliving his day,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With his heart in the wistful past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Then surely you know of the sombre things<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Which God in his wisdom sends<br\/>To turn men\u2019s thoughts into kindlier vein<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the day\u2019s mad labor ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 9, 1915. Have you ever heard, in the lonesome night,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The call of the wind-swept sea,Mighty and strong the great seasong,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ever pitched in a minor key? Have you ever stood on a barren plain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the red sun sank belowThe curve of the world and the night was hurled&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Like a pall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","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=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}