{"id":5740,"date":"2012-04-08T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T10:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2012-04-11T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:56:19","slug":"trailing-clouds-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5740","title":{"rendered":"Trailing Clouds of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the birthday of William Wordsworth (1770-1850); thus I post an excerpt from his beautiful <em>Ode on Intimations of Immortality<\/em>, so appropriate to this season and this day. Happy Passover, Happy Easter, everyone.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BeachMorning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5752\" title=\"BeachMorning\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BeachMorning.png\" alt=\"BeachMorning\" width=\"456\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BeachMorning.png 725w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BeachMorning-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;<br \/>\nThe Soul that rises with us, our life\u2019s Star,<br \/>\nHath had elsewhere its setting<br \/>\nAnd cometh from afar;<br \/>\nNot in entire forgetfulness,<br \/>\nAnd not in utter nakedness,<br \/>\nBut trailing clouds of glory do we come<br \/>\nFrom God, who is our home:<br \/>\nHeaven lies about us in our infancy<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014William Wordsworth, from <em>Intimations of Immortality<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read the poem in entirety <a title=\"Ode on Intimations of Immortality\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15926\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a mini-bio of Wordsworth, please see\u00a0<em><a title=\"My Heart Leaps Up\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=1227\" target=\"_blank\">My Heart Leaps Up<\/a><\/em>. For another painting and favorite poem, please see\u00a0<em><a title=\"Dancing with the Daffodils\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=4214\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing with the Daffodils<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the birthday of William Wordsworth (1770-1850); thus I post an excerpt from his beautiful Ode on Intimations of Immortality, so appropriate to this season and this day. Happy Passover, Happy Easter, everyone. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life\u2019s Star, Hath had elsewhere<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5740\">Read 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":[64],"tags":[103,23,19,3],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-beach","tag-festival","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","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=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}