{"id":1431,"date":"2016-11-22T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/bedouin-love-song\/"},"modified":"2016-11-22T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:29:52","slug":"bedouin-love-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/bedouin-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedouin Love Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>BEDOUIN LOVE SONG (1853)<\/strong><br \/>\nBayard Taylor (1825-1878)<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">FROM the Desert I come to thee<br \/>\nOn a stallion shod with fire;<br \/>\nAnd the winds are left behind<br \/>\nIn the speed of my desire.<br \/>\nUnder thy window I stand,<br \/>\nAnd the midnight hears my cry:<br \/>\nI love thee, I love but thee,<br \/>\nWith a love that shall not die<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Till the sun grows cold,<br \/>\nAnd the stars are old,<br \/>\nAnd the leaves of the Judgement<br \/>\nBook unfold!<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Look from thy window and see<br \/>\nMy passion and my pain;<br \/>\nI lie on the sands below,<br \/>\nAnd I faint in thy disdain.<br \/>\nLet the night-winds touch thy brow<br \/>\nWith the heat of my burning sigh,<br \/>\nAnd melt thee to hear the vow<br \/>\nOf a love that shall not die<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Till the sun grows cold,<br \/>\nAnd the stars are old,<br \/>\nAnd the leaves of the Judgement<br \/>\nBook unfold!<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">My steps are nightly driven,<br \/>\nBy the fever in my breast,<br \/>\nTo hear from thy lattice breathed<br \/>\nThe word that shall give me rest.<br \/>\nOpen the door of thy heart,<br \/>\nAnd open thy chamber door,<br \/>\nAnd my kisses shall teach thy lips<br \/>\nThe love that shall fade no more<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Till the sun grows cold,<br \/>\nAnd the stars are old,<br \/>\nAnd the leaves of the Judgement<br \/>\nBook unfold!<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">(listen)&nbsp;<br \/>\n(or) (not sure this is the<br \/>\nsame rendition mentioned in the book)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEDOUIN LOVE SONG (1853) Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) FROM the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}