{"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-T7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3803,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/when-they-stood-there-for-that-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":3417,"position":0},"title":"When They Stood There For That Photo","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=exWwz1HEJFg When they stood there, for that photo Before my father was even born then Who is now but in a picture a face Did those women and men Wonder at the world to come And ponder the coming times of change Though they did not do this I think\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family Stories"","block_context":{"text":"Family Stories","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/family-stories\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo taken of our family outside our home in Aughagreagh by Sean MacEoin, known to us as \"Tipper\" McKeon, when he was known as John Joseph McKeon...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Carty-family-of-Aughagreagh.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Carty-family-of-Aughagreagh.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Carty-family-of-Aughagreagh.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Carty-family-of-Aughagreagh.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3534,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/edgeworthstown-exhibition-aids-pieta-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":3417,"position":1},"title":"Edgeworthstown exhibition aids Pieta House – Fighting against suicide and depression and for urban horses and horse fairs","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th February 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The fight against depression and suicide has many armies, one of the most prominent of late being PIETA House, and at a fundraising arts and crafts exhibition in Edgeworthstown I got to help raise awareness and funds by putting in my photos. 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