A waiting ghost, in the blue sky, Today is the birthday of poet Arthur Symons (1865-1945), and I post in his honor this watercolor and\u00a0poem, although it seems more suitable for a romantic Midsummer Eve than the end of February. He shares his birthday with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), and for a mini-bio, a painting, and the unforgettable opening lines of \u201cEvangeline,\u201dRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,55,17,19,3],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-architecture","tag-birthday","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5543,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"VillageFountain\"](\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VillageFountain1.png\" "\\"VillageFountain\\"")
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\n<\/em> The fountain murmuring of sleep,
\nA drowsy tune;
\nThe flickering green of leaves that keep
\nThe light of June;
\nPeace, through a slumbering afternoon,
\nThe peace of June.<\/p>\n
\nThe white curved moon;
\nJune, hushed and breathless, waits, and I
\nWait too, with June;
\nCome, through the lingering afternoon,
\nSoon, love, come soon.
\n\u2014Arthur Symons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"