{"id":544,"date":"2013-07-06T00:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=544"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:10:25","slug":"juvenilia-sonnet-to-the-ancient-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/juvenilia-sonnet-to-the-ancient-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenilia: Sonnet to the Ancient Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pics-004.jpg\" alt=\"Song to the Fading Town illustration\" \/><br \/>\nOh ancient town bestride the restless shore,<br \/>\nOld shadows lingered lastest at thy gates;<br \/>\nThou hads&#8217;t withdrawn unto a darkened veil<br \/>\nAnd deep in briar thy pleasance lay abate.<br \/>\nThy tower t&#8217;was a sentinel forlorn,<br \/>\nThy walls did but enshadow former might &#8211;<br \/>\nThe fleeting breath of Nodens&#8217; silent horn<br \/>\nHad been thy lone companion in the night.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d watch thou vanish on the early morn,<br \/>\nAnd by the brillig, thou&#8217;d departed late<br \/>\nAnd left of thou t&#8217;was but a ruin, shorn<br \/>\nOf all its shadows and thy sleeping gate.<br \/>\nAnd when unto thy ruined port I gaze<br \/>\nI see thy walls confound the evening haze.<\/p>\n<p>Notes.<\/p>\n<p>Pleasance &#8211; Medieval pleasure garden.<br \/>\nNodens &#8211; An ancient Celtic god often associated with nature.<br \/>\nBrillig &#8211; From Lewis Carol&#8217;s Jaberwocky &#8211; nonsense word for evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh ancient town bestride the restless shore, Old shadows lingered lastest at thy gates; Thou hads&#8217;t withdrawn unto a darkened veil And deep in briar thy pleasance lay abate. Thy tower t&#8217;was a sentinel forlorn, Thy walls did but enshadow former might &#8211; The fleeting breath of Nodens&#8217; silent horn Had been thy lone companion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}