{"id":3417,"date":"2016-12-12T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:09:25","slug":"he-bore-witness-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/he-bore-witness-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"He Bore Witness To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The late John Montague<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bears witness through written word,
\nRecords it line by line:
\nThe song of the earth: its painful cry,
\nBehind smiling face that says its fine.<\/p>\n

Such duty it is the poets lot
\nWho in verse writing peace does seek
\nCause wars of their own known to theirs alone
\nArtistic temperment being unique.<\/p>\n

But the verses left that they have written –
\nTo be read in the coming years –
\nShall be worth it all: we all are human
\nWe all shed and cause tears.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to the memory of John Montague. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bears witness through written word, Records it line by line: The song of the earth: its painful cry, Behind smiling face that says its fine. Such duty it is the poets lot Who in verse writing peace does seek Cause wars of their own known to theirs alone Artistic temperment …<\/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":[308],"tags":[2780,3398,313],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-elegy","tag-john-montague","tag-obituary","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-T7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4875,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/death-took-the-poet-while-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":3417,"position":0},"title":"Death Took The Poet While Writing","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"6th December 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Sullivan The Poet\" as Michael Sullivan referred to himself, was a writer I came across online well over a decade ago. 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