{"id":274,"date":"2012-10-31T02:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2012-10-31T02:41:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:41:03","slug":"of-tears","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=274","title":{"rendered":"Of Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F65442919&visual=true\"><\/iframe>\n<address><strong>Greybeard love I&#8217;ve watched your withered hand on sacred bread,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>The unfirm footstep altar-bound, the bowed and frosted head.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>And I have dared imagine days when you shall walk no more,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>But pass ahead afloat our tears through heaven&#8217;s open door.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And I have cried to know that I shall have to bear that day,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And sing our love in tears of pain when you have passed away.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><strong>Gentle child on parent hand awakening to surprise,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Held up to view the myst&#8217;ries with wide and open eyes&#8211;<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Oh, I&#8217;ve imagined days when you shall see the grey on me<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>And weep the day I pass away while knowing I am free.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And I have smiled to think what tears might sing that I have gone<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And whisper gentle pains of love when I have wandered on.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address><strong>The birth of two, the death of one, the life of more and more,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>As love across the ages flows as tears onto the floor;<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>Delight of generations and the pain of weary loss,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>A union past imagining united in the cross.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And I have sighed to know that love begets the tears of pain,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0And love outlives the blessed grief when we shall love again.<\/strong><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greybeard love I&#8217;ve watched your withered hand on sacred bread, The unfirm footstep altar-bound, the bowed and frosted head. And I have dared imagine days when you shall walk no more, But pass ahead afloat our tears through heaven&#8217;s open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}