O Poet! my Poet! rise up and hear the bells;
\nRise up\u2014for you the flag is flung\u2014for you the bugle trills,
\nFor you bouquets and ribbon\u2019d wreaths\u2014for you the shores a-crowding,
\nFor you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
\n Here Poet! dear teacher!
\n Your words live in my head!
\n It is some dream that on this earth,
\n You\u2019ve long been cold and dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
O Poet! my Poet! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up\u2014for you the flag is flung\u2014for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon\u2019d wreaths\u2014for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Poet! dear teacher! Your words live … Continue reading “On his birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21200,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions\/21200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}