{"id":428,"date":"2013-10-08T21:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=428"},"modified":"2013-10-08T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:18:16","slug":"poem-by-joyce-kilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2013\/10\/poem-by-joyce-kilmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem by Joyce Kilmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well;<\/p>\n<p>I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell;<\/p>\n<p>O happy lamp! to serve Him with never ceasing light!<\/p>\n<p>O happy flame! to tremble forever in His sight!<\/p>\n<p>I leave the holy quiet for the loudly human train,<\/p>\n<p>And my heart that He has breathed upon is filled with lonely pain.<\/p>\n<p>O King, O Friend, O Lover! What sorer grief can be<\/p>\n<p>In all the reddest depths of Hell than banishment from Thee?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tabernacle6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-426\" alt=\"tabernacle6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tabernacle6-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tabernacle6-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tabernacle6.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But from my window as I speed across the sleeping land<\/p>\n<p>I see the towns and villages wherein His houses stand.<\/p>\n<p>Above the roofs I see a cross outlined against the night,<\/p>\n<p>And I know that there my Lover dwells in His sacramental might.<\/p>\n<p>Dominions kneel before Him, and Powers kiss His feet,<\/p>\n<p>Yet for me He keeps His weary watch in the turmoil of the street:<\/p>\n<p>The King of Kings awaits me, wherever I may go,<\/p>\n<p>O who am I that He should deign to love and serve me so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well; I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell; O happy lamp! to serve Him with never ceasing light! O happy flame! to tremble forever in His sight! I leave the holy quiet for the loudly human train, And my heart that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}