{"id":9673,"date":"2021-01-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-01-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T06:00:00","slug":"a-pastoral-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-pastoral-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pastoral Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1913-01-04\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Birmingham Age-Herald, January 4, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n The passionate shepherd\n &nbsp; &nbsp; His lot doth lament;\n Sweet Phyllida left him\u2014\n &nbsp; &nbsp; One morning she went.\n \n Some say \u2019twas an actor\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Who led her astray,\n And some say a chauffeur\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Upon the \u201cWhite Way.\u201d\n \n Alone on the hillside\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The desolate swain\n Sheds tears of deep sorrow\n &nbsp; &nbsp; That shower like rain.\n \n His pipe is neglected,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; He singeth no more,\n His flock is a-straying\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The wide country o\u2019er.\n \n She spoke of his manners\n &nbsp; &nbsp; As boorish and rude,\n When she would a lover\n &nbsp; &nbsp; With polish endued.\n \n Then shortly she left him,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; The hard-hearted girl;\n Grown tired of day-dreaming,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; She longed for a whirl.\n \n A Shepard, she knew it,\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Saw little of life;\n She\u2019d be in the swim as\n &nbsp; &nbsp; An actor-man\u2019s wife.\n \n Or was it a chauffeur?\n &nbsp; &nbsp; We really can\u2019t say,\n But sad is the shepherd\n &nbsp; &nbsp; Since she went away.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The passionate shepherd<br \/>\n     His lot doth lament;<br \/>\n Sweet Phyllida left him\u2014<br \/>\n     One morning she went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9673","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\/9673","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=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}