{"id":9650,"date":"2020-10-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2020-10-29T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:00:00","slug":"the-leaves-give-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-leaves-give-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leaves Give Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn82016014\/1912-10-29\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Topeka State Journal, October 29, 1912<\/a>.\nBy Georgia Wood Pangborn.<\/em>\n \n\n All the cheerful little leaves\n \u00a0 Were lying mute and slain,\n Their tender summer faces\n \u00a0 Marred with age and pain.\n Through the threadbare forest\n \u00a0 Strode the wind and rain.\n \n I wept because the sky was gray,\n \u00a0 Because the leaves were dead,\n Because the winter came so fast,\n \u00a0 And summer\u2019s sweet was sped;\n And because I, too, was mortal\u2014\n \u00a0 \u201cAll flesh is grass,\u201d I said.\n \n But while I was lamenting\n \u00a0 The woods began to sing.\n The voice of all dead leaves came up\n \u00a0 As when they sang in Spring:\n \u201cPraise God,\u201d they sang, \u201cfor Winter\n \u00a0 And stormy harvesting:\n \n \u201cPraise God, who uses old things\n \u00a0 To serve the new things\u2019 need\n And turns us into earth again\n \u00a0 That next year\u2019s roots may feed;\n Roots but for us and our decay\n \u00a0 Would shrivel in the seed.\n \n \u201cTo the thousand summers\n \u00a0 Our summer has been thrust,\n But the snow is very gentle\n \u00a0 Above its rags and rust.\n Lie down, lie down, oh, brothers,\n \u00a0 With the thousand summers\u2019 dust.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> All the cheerful little leaves<br \/>\n   Were lying mute and slain,<br \/>\n Their tender summer faces<br \/>\n   Marred with age and pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-topeka-state-journal","tag-georgia-wood-pangborn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}