{"id":3261,"date":"2025-05-25T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2025-05-25T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:01:53","slug":"the-sea-and-the-skylark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/the-sea-and-the-skylark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea and the Skylark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poem-actions  poem-actions--vertical\">\n<p>On ear and ear two noises too old to end<br \/>\nTrench\u2014right, the tide that ramps against the shore;<br \/>\nWith a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,<br \/>\nFrequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"field field--body\">\n<p><span class=\"long-line\">Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">His rash-fresh re-winded new-skein\u00e8d score<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"long-line\">And pelt music, till none\u2019s to spill nor spend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"long-line\">How these two shame this shallow and frail town!<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">How ring right out our sordid turbid time,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">Being pure! We, life\u2019s pride and cared-for crown,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">Have lost that cheer and charm of earth\u2019s past prime:<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">Our make and making break, are breaking, down<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"long-line\">To man\u2019s last dust, drain fast towards man\u2019s first slime.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Praeterea, puto arma nuclearia Persiae delenda esse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On ear and ear two noises too old to end Trench\u2014right, the tide that ramps against the shore; With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar, Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend. Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend, His rash-fresh re-winded new-skein\u00e8d score In crisps of curl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[303,537,1197],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-gerard-manley-hopkins","tag-persia","tag-the-sea-and-the-skylark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}