{"id":216,"date":"2021-02-28T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2021-02-28T22:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:46:02","slug":"blossoms-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/blossoms-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossoms of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"> \n Like a river, we flow\n And like barley, we grow\n To reach for the light of the sun\n \n By the burbling brook,\n and the oaths that we took\n To unite, and face shadows as one\n \n When I saw you at first, I took no special heed\n As you led in the flock from the hills\n But when tragedy struck, and you rose to our needs\n My murmuring heart, pushed my faltering will\n \n Like the mountains, we stand\n And like Titans, we plan\n To push against dire designs\n \n Amidst blossoms of gold,\n With our futures untold,\n We merge, and mix water and wine\n \n As we raised up our children, and guarded the flocks\n The tribes of the iron man swelled  \n By truncheon or pike, by arrow or rock\n One by one, we were pushed towards hell\n \n Like the great winds, we howl\n And we rake, like the owl\n Who terrifies creatures that creep\n \n If we die in our plight,\n At least we gave fight\n And refused to go softly to sleep\n \n But the man-creatures ran, and we breathed with relief\n Though steep was the price that we paid\n Fillie and foal, were screaming in grief\n Ten score were the grave-stones we laid\n \n \n Like a river\u2026\n \n By the burbling \u2026\n \n Like the mountain \u2026\n \n Amidst blossoms ...\n \n Verse form I\n \/ C \/ G \/ F C \/ FG C \/ \n Verse form II\n \/ C G F C \/ F G C C \/ C G F C \/ F G C C \/ <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a river, we flow And like barley, we grow To reach for the light of the sun By the burbling brook, and the oaths that we took To unite,<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/blossoms-of-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blossoms of Gold<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gibson.show\/bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}