{"id":1386,"date":"2019-04-28T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2019-05-04T03:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:03:16","slug":"of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who knows, but birds which under th\u2019azure skies<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nDo fly, know<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> whence the blustring winds do rise?<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nMay know what<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> thunder is, which no man knows,
\nAnd what\u2019s a blazing star,<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> or where it goes,
\nWhether it be a chip, fall\u2019n<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> from the sun, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5
\nAnd so goes out when<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> aliment is done,
\nOr<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> a sulphureous vapor drawn up high,
\nAnd when the sulphur\u2019s spent the flame doth die,
\nOr whether\u2019t<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> be a jelly set on fire,
\nAnd wasting like a candle doth expire, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10
\nOr whether\u2019t<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> be a star whole and<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> entire;
\nThe birds, perhaps, might tell,<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> could we inquire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knows, but birds which under th\u2019azure skies Do fly, know whence the blustring winds do rise? May know what thunder is, which no man knows, And what\u2019s a blazing star, or where it goes, Whether it be a chip, fall\u2019n from the sun, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 And so goes out when aliment is done, Or … Continue reading Of Birds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-discourses","category-part2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}