{"id":8311,"date":"2022-08-17T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:21:29","slug":"an-august-wood-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=8311","title":{"rendered":"An August Wood Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nancy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An August Wood Road<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860 &#8211; 1943)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the partridge coveys fly<br>In the birch-tops cool and high;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the dry cicadas twang<br>Where the purpling fir-cones hang;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the bunch-berries emboss\u2014<br>Scarlet beads\u2014the roadside moss;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown with shadows, bright with sun,<br>All day long till day is done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sleeps in murmuring solitude<br>The worn old road that threads the wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its deep cup\u2014grassy, cool\u2014<br>Sleeps the little roadside pool;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sleeps the butterfly on the weed,<br>Sleeps the drifted thistle-seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a great and blazing gem,<br>Basks the beetle on the stem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up and down the shining rays<br>Dancing midges weave their maze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High among the moveless boughs,<br>Drunk with day, the night-hawks drowse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far up, unfathomably blue,<br>August&#8217;s heaven vibrates through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old road leads to all things good;<br>The year&#8217;s at full, and time&#8217;s at flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/An-August-Wood-Road.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you will enjoy \u201cAn August Wood Road\u201d, a beautiful poem written by the father of Canadian Poetry, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts. Many thanks to Eric for translating the poem into Chinese and beautifully reciting it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-weekly","tag-nancy-weekly","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}