{"id":21,"date":"2007-10-29T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T01:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2007-11-01T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T01:38:39","slug":"borne-out-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Borne out of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ovid Weeps for Me<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen first I heard your distant cry,<br \/>\nIt cut exceeding fine<br \/>\nAnd loosed my heart to rise to you;<br \/>\nBut I would not let it go.<br \/>\nHow true the premonition:<br \/>\nWhat&rsquo;s given is ne&rsquo;er regained.<\/p>\n<p>You stooped down to find my gate;<br \/>\nI was faint to let you in.<br \/>\nI never thought one so high as you<br \/>\nCould bear the dust of me.<br \/>\nAt first I trembled to lead you through<br \/>\nAll the muck and clutter,<br \/>\nBut you brought forth a guise<br \/>\nOf blind humility;<br \/>\nAnd in your quiet serenity<br \/>\nYou corrupted me.<\/p>\n<p>At your laughter I yearned to show<br \/>\nAll my treasured places.<br \/>\nTo your willing ear I told my sacred stories;<br \/>\nThe words of my life were jewels to me.<br \/>\nI gave them all to you.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that I could graft you in<br \/>\nThe most fruitful bough<br \/>\nOf life&rsquo;s beloved tree.<br \/>\nNow you cast aside forgotten<br \/>\nWhat once was dear to me.<\/p>\n<p>If the gemstones of my soul<br \/>\nAre a passing souvenir,<br \/>\nWhy did you come for them?<br \/>\nIf naught to you,<br \/>\nWhy did you take them away?<br \/>\nNot carnal stones,<br \/>\nBut fragile intangible crystals<br \/>\nOf my imagined worth.<\/p>\n<p>Is life always such adventure<br \/>\nIn the high circles where you fly?<br \/>\nCan you be bored<br \/>\nWith such endless flowers?<br \/>\nYour rainbow wake<br \/>\nHas disturbed my simple gray.<br \/>\nI will never be still again.<\/p>\n<p>September \/ October 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ovid Weeps for Me When first I heard your distant cry, It cut exceeding fine And loosed my heart to rise to you; But I would not let it go. How true the premonition: What&rsquo;s given is ne&rsquo;er regained. You stooped down to find my gate; I was faint to let you in. I never thought one so high as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}