{"id":9655,"date":"2020-11-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2020-11-23T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T06:00:00","slug":"just-gladness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/just-gladness\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Gladness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn92053934\/1912-11-23\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">Rock Island Argus, November 23, 1912<\/a><\/em>.\n<em>By Duncan M. Smith.<\/em>\n \n\n Oh, gladness is a splendid thing\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For bards to write about\n When they are very sorely pressed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And subjects have run out!\n Their souls may not be soaked in joy\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To match the gentle strain\n And they may have a grouch so large\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That it would block a train.\n \n But still they write of cheerfulness\n \u00a0 \u00a0 As though it were a part\n Of their existence and it gushed\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In torrents from their heart.\n They put aside their aching tooth,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The bill they cannot pay,\n The rent that\u2019s always overdue,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And then they work away.\n \n Great gobs of gladness is their theme,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The first that comes to hand.\n They tell the people they should use\n \u00a0 \u00a0 This one and only brand.\n But do they use a bit themselves\u2014\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I mean outside their rime\u2014\n With which to make a brighter world?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I fear they haven\u2019t time.\n \n O gladsome gladness, you\u2019re the goods\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For use in daily life\n Far better than the grim old grouch\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which leads to care and strife!\n And if the poet does not feel\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The impulse of his song\n You\u2019ll find that the advice is good\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Enough to take along.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Oh, gladness is a splendid thing<br \/>\n     For bards to write about<br \/>\n When they are very sorely pressed<br \/>\n     And subjects have run out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-duncan-m-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}