{"id":911,"date":"2014-02-22T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T00:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2014-10-22T00:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:15:30","slug":"beauty-passed-and-yet-still-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/beauty-passed-and-yet-still-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty Passed, and Yet Still Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2882\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2882\" alt=\"Doppings Walled Gardens in Derrycassin Woods at Millinaleagta in North Longford\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Doppings-Walled-Gardens-in-Derrycassin-Woods-at-Millinaleagta-in-North-Longford.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"535\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doppings Walled Gardens in Derrycassin Woods at Mullinaleagta in North Longford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beauty passed, and yet still beautiful,<br \/>\nWalls crumble, slaves to time, build long ago<br \/>\nThe rhubarb that once here grew I ate,<br \/>\nAs a child in Banagher, where some did grow,<br \/>\nThat we brought with us, its thick stalks,<br \/>\nYet both bitter and sweet, grew strong and tall,<br \/>\nA link to home, a home that was never ours,<br \/>\nWhere it was planted, beneath this wall,<br \/>\nWhose arch I walk under, today ferns,<br \/>\nAnd grass is all that here grows,<br \/>\nAmong unknown and unwanted plants&#8230;<br \/>\nSun strongly shines, from Gowna a breeze blows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Spirits watch, unseen, that there planted it,<br \/>\nBefore it was taken, planted in our lands&#8230;<br \/>\nBeside them smiling, another who died from want,<br \/>\nAmong riches of those times stands&#8230;<br \/>\nFor all thats wrong in our land today,<br \/>\nAnd a lot is wrong &#8211; we think not fair&#8230;<br \/>\nIts still better then these times of want and wantoness<br \/>\nIf we for each other help and care.<\/p>\n<p>Among these walls I see no rhubarb,<br \/>\nIts died out where once it was grown<br \/>\nPrehaps Ill return someday, and replant it&#8230;<br \/>\nA tribute to those before, to us unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty passed, and yet still beautiful, Walls crumble, slaves to time, build long ago The rhubarb that once here grew I ate, As a child in Banagher, where some did grow, That we brought with us, its thick stalks, Yet both bitter and sweet, grew strong and tall, A link &#8230;<\/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":[439,22,232,23],"tags":[1112,1108,1111,1109,42,1110,844],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banagher","category-family-stories","category-nature-2","category-north-longford","tag-big-houses-of-ireland","tag-derrycassin","tag-dopping-hepenstal","tag-doppins","tag-longford","tag-lough-gowna","tag-passage-of-time-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-eH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1952,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/fairy-fort-at-lough-gowna\/","url_meta":{"origin":911,"position":0},"title":"Fairy Fort at Lough Gowna","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"24th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Did they look as I walked Where tradition states one never should, Inside the round ditches of the fort, Perched above Loch Gowna in Derrycassin Wood? 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