{"id":5981,"date":"2012-06-02T06:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T10:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2013-09-22T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T11:28:33","slug":"let-me-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=5981","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the birthday of the sensitive and melancholy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who in 1897 departed England for Switzerland in order to \u201cescape the racket of the Diamond Jubilee\u201d (Queen Victoria\u2019s, on that occasion). He would be obliged to go much further than Switzerland this time around, what with continuous satellite coverage of Elizabeth II\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n

For his birthday I post this poem, and, despite the final verse\u2019s mournful assumption about Hardy\u2019s fate, I post also a painting of some cheerful yellow pansies. Since we know not the aims of the loveliness of pansies.<\/p>\n

\"YellowPansies\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Let me enjoy the earth no less
\nBecause the all-enacting Might
\nThat fashioned forth its loveliness
\nHad other aims than my delight.<\/p>\n

About my path there flits a Fair,
\nWho throws me not a word or sign;
\nI\u2019ll charm me with her ignoring air,
\nAnd laud the lips not meant for mine.<\/p>\n

From manuscripts of moving song
\nInspired by scenes and dreams unknown
\nI\u2019ll pour out raptures that belong
\nTo others, as they were my own.<\/p>\n

And some day hence, towards Paradise
\nAnd all its blest\u2014if such should be\u2014
\nI will lift glad, afar-off eyes
\nThough it contain no place for me.
\n <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Thomas Hardy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the birthday of the sensitive and melancholy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who in 1897 departed England for Switzerland in order to \u201cescape the racket of the Diamond Jubilee\u201d (Queen Victoria\u2019s, on that occasion). He would be obliged to go much further than Switzerland this time around, what with continuous satellite coverage of Elizabeth II\u2019sRead 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":[55,76,61,19,52],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-birthday","tag-flowers","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-still-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}