{"id":718,"date":"2017-06-11T22:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=718"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:06:24","slug":"the-reason-water-quenches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"The Reason Water Quenches Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>The reason fire by water is quenched<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> out
\n<\/span>Is that round atoms do<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> put to a rout
\n<\/span>The sharp,<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for when a house on fire is set,<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Then atoms sharp are<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> in great armies met,<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>Where they themselves range into<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ranks and files, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u00a05
\n<\/span>And strive always to havoc and make spoils,
\n<\/span>Running about as nimble as may be<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>From side to side, as in great fires<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> we see.
\n<\/span>But atoms round do like a rescue come,<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>And separate the sharp, which in heaps run.<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>10
\n<\/span>For being separate, they have no force,
\n<\/span>Like to a troop or regiment of horse,
\n<\/span>Which when great cannon bullets are shot through,
\n<\/span>They disunite, and quite their strength undo.
\n<\/span>So water that is thrown on flaming fire \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\u00a0<\/span> 15
\n<\/span>Doth separate and make that strength expire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason fire by water is quenched out Is that round atoms do put to a rout The sharp, for when a house on fire is set, Then atoms sharp are in great armies met, Where they themselves range into ranks and files, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a05 And strive always to havoc and make … Continue reading The Reason Water Quenches Fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}