{"id":1464,"date":"2015-02-11T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2015-02-11T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:54:58","slug":"heaven-taught-ploughman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/heaven-taught-ploughman\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven Taught Ploughman"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A heaven taught ploughman” – Henry McKenzie speaking of Robert Burns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Detail<\/a>
Detail from Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez’s painting “The Ploughman”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He learned much with plough in field
\nBeast snorting, as ever he did in school,
\nFor heaven is where the heart is happy
\nThough all the world call a man a fool.
\nNo fool was he, and none thought so:
\nRather all acclaimed him, andbecause
\nOf words of others, the fickle few, he changed
\nAnd becuase he changed, he was…<\/p>\n

Fault him not, for all men are such fools
\nBecause of what about them is said
\nSome think themselves above their station
\nMore tragic below, and the most tragic: dead…
\nWe are all be Heaven taught
\nIf we listen to nature around
\nSchool it is, every day of our life
\nThat a lesson from can be found.<\/p>\n

So, he the scholar with open eyes
\nA willing heart and attentive ears
\nNever stop learning on lifes instructions
\nThrough our joys and through our fears..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A heaven taught ploughman” – Henry McKenzie speaking of Robert Burns. He learned much with plough in field Beast snorting, as ever he did in school, For heaven is where the heart is happy Though all the world call a man a fool. No fool was he, and none thought …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,233,3],"tags":[1670,1671,65,1673,1672,623,657],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations-from-quotations","category-writers","category-writing","tag-henry-mac-kenzie","tag-henry-mac-kenzie-quote","tag-life-2","tag-poem-on-writers","tag-quotes-on-robert-burns","tag-robert-burns","tag-writing-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-nC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4886,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/burns-loved-the-lasses\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Burns Loved The Lasses","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th December 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Burns loved the lasses, out with many he walked, How the parsons grumbled: how the people talked! 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