{"id":388,"date":"2007-06-22T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=388"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:26:52","slug":"a-shropshire-lad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/a-shropshire-lad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shropshire Lad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a><\/center>Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad. <\/b> 1887<\/p>\n

“To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
\nTo fields that bred them brave,
\nThe saviours come not home to-night:
\nThemselves they could not save.<\/i><\/p>\n

It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
\nAnd Shropshire names are read;
\nAnd the Nile spills his overflow
\nBeside the Severn’s dead.<\/p>\n

We pledge in peace by farm and town
\nThe Queen they served in war,
\nAnd fire the beacons up and down
\nThe land they perished for.<\/p>\n

“God save the Queen” we living sing,
\nFrom height to height ’tis heard;
\nAnd with the rest your voices ring,
\nLads of the Fifty-third.<\/p>\n

Oh, God will save her, fear you not:
\nBe you the men you’ve been,
\nGet you the sons your fathers got,
\nAnd God will save the Queen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/etext.lib.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/HouShro.html Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad. 1887 “To skies that knit their heartstrings right, To fields that bred them brave, The saviours come not home to-night: Themselves they could not save. It dawns in Asia, tombstones show And Shropshire … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uk","tag-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}