{"id":562,"date":"2010-08-19T15:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T19:46:35","slug":"strange-crawling-carpets-of-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/strange-crawling-carpets-of-the-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Crawling Carpets of the Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Second Childhood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;GK Chesterton<\/p>\n<p>When all my days are ending<br \/>\nAnd I have no song to sing,<br \/>\nI think that I shall not be too old<br \/>\nTo stare at everything;<br \/>\nAs I stared once at a nursery door<br \/>\nOr a tall tree and a swing.<\/p>\n<p>Wherein God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ponderous mercy hangs<br \/>\nOn all my sins and me,<br \/>\nBecause He does not take away<br \/>\nThe terror from the tree<br \/>\nAnd stones still shine along the road<br \/>\nThat are and cannot be.<\/p>\n<p>Men grow too old for love, my love,<br \/>\nMen grow too old for wine,<br \/>\nBut I shall not grow too old to see<br \/>\nUnearthly daylight shine,<br \/>\nChanging my chamber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dust to snow<br \/>\nTill I doubt if it be mine.<\/p>\n<p>Behold, the crowning mercies melt,<br \/>\nThe first surprises stay;<br \/>\nAnd in my dross is dropped a gift<br \/>\nFor which I dare not pray:<br \/>\nThat a man grow used to grief and joy<br \/>\nBut not to night and day.<\/p>\n<p>Men grow too old for love, my love,<br \/>\nMen grow too old for lies;<br \/>\nBut I shall not grow too old to see<br \/>\nEnormous night arise,<br \/>\nA cloud that is larger than the world<br \/>\nAnd a monster made of eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Nor am I worthy to unloose<br \/>\nThe latchet of my shoe;<br \/>\nOr shake the dust from off my feet<br \/>\nOr the staff that bears me through<br \/>\nOn ground that is too good to last,<br \/>\nToo solid to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Men grow too old to woo, my love,<br \/>\nMen grow too old to wed;<br \/>\nBut I shall not grow too old to see<br \/>\nHung crazily overhead<br \/>\nIncredible rafters when I wake<br \/>\nAnd I find that I am not dead.<\/p>\n<p>A thrill of thunder in my hair:<br \/>\nThough blackening clouds be plain,<br \/>\nStill I am stung and startled<br \/>\nBy the first drop of the rain:<br \/>\nRomance and pride and passion pass<br \/>\nAnd these are what remain.<\/p>\n<p>Strange crawling carpets of the grass,<br \/>\nWide windows of the sky;<br \/>\nSo in this perilous grace of God<br \/>\nWith all my sins go I:<br \/>\nAnd things grow new though I grow old,<br \/>\nThough I grow old and die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Second Childhood &mdash;GK Chesterton When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[463,2558,2549],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-monster-made-of-eyes","tag-borges","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->