{"id":535,"date":"2014-07-11T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=535"},"modified":"2014-10-07T17:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:14:58","slug":"returning-we-hear-the-larks","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/returning-we-hear-the-larks\/","title":{"raw":"Returning, We Hear the Larks","rendered":"Returning, We Hear the Larks"},"content":{"raw":"Sombre the night is.\r\nAnd though we have our lives, we know\r\nWhat sinister threat lurks there.\r\n\r\nDragging these anguished limbs, we only know\r\nThis poison- blasted track opens on our camp -\r\nOn a little safe sleep.\r\n\r\nBut hark! joy - joy - strange joy.\r\nLo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.\r\nMusic showering our upturned list'ning faces.\r\n\r\nDeath could drop from the dark\r\nAs easily as song -\r\nBut song only dropped,\r\nLike a blind man's dreams on the sand\r\nBy dangerous tides,\r\nLike a girl's dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there,\r\nOr her kisses where a serpent hides.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (https:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/education\/tutorials\/intro\/rose); \u00a9 <cite class=\"book\"><span class=\"book-name\">Poems of the First World War: 'Never Such Innocence'<\/span>, ed. Martin Stephen (Everyman, 1995)<\/cite>, p. 169.","rendered":"<p>Sombre the night is.<br \/>\nAnd though we have our lives, we know<br \/>\nWhat sinister threat lurks there.<\/p>\n<p>Dragging these anguished limbs, we only know<br \/>\nThis poison- blasted track opens on our camp &#8211;<br \/>\nOn a little safe sleep.<\/p>\n<p>But hark! joy &#8211; joy &#8211; strange joy.<br \/>\nLo! heights of night ringing with unseen larks.<br \/>\nMusic showering our upturned list&#8217;ning faces.<\/p>\n<p>Death could drop from the dark<br \/>\nAs easily as song &#8211;<br \/>\nBut song only dropped,<br \/>\nLike a blind man&#8217;s dreams on the sand<br \/>\nBy dangerous tides,<br \/>\nLike a girl&#8217;s dark hair for she dreams no ruin lies there,<br \/>\nOr her kisses where a serpent hides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This item is from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (https:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/education\/tutorials\/intro\/rose); \u00a9 <cite class=\"book\"><span class=\"book-name\">Poems of the First World War: &#8216;Never Such Innocence&#8217;<\/span>, ed. Martin Stephen (Everyman, 1995)<\/cite>, p. 169.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["isaac-rosenberg"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[69],"license":[78],"class_list":["post-535","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-isaac-rosenberg","license-public-domain"],"part":533,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/535\/revisions\/2313"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/533"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/535\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}