{"id":26,"date":"2018-03-03T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-03-03T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:05:16","slug":"alison-max","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/alison-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison &#038; Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For my daughter Alison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you journey from my heart<br \/>\nBlue morning&#8217;s maid,<br \/>\nI shall not see with your horizon<br \/>\nNor hear the music in your land.<br \/>\nI shall not build the mansion of your mind<br \/>\nNor cut your footholds in the bitter ice.<\/p>\n<p>When you journey from my heart<br \/>\nOn your own true road, forget me,<br \/>\nFor my ghost has gone before and blessed<br \/>\nThe walls and hearthstone of your house,<br \/>\nAnd when your heart leaps to delight<br \/>\nAnd courage, my whisper in your blood,<br \/>\nMy wishes flying find their home.<\/p>\n<p><em>1952<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At Length<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Always the same: a poetry of beginnings;<br \/>\nfor sixty years writing the same poem!<br \/>\nWhat pleasures, what disgusts!<\/p>\n<p>Now in the sunny window of an evening<br \/>\nblazing with the smoke and rain of a beloved city<br \/>\nthis is the chair to which, somehow, I have come<\/p>\n<p>And think of others, old navigators, old men<br \/>\nWith their hands on new maps, Hesperides<br \/>\nRising in the West, peaks breaking above waves<br \/>\nAnd children crowding to the bow!<\/p>\n<p><em>(for Max Ashwell 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my daughter Alison When you journey from my heart Blue morning&#8217;s maid, I shall not see with your horizon Nor hear the music in your land. I shall not build the mansion of your mind Nor cut your footholds in the bitter ice. When you journey from my heart On your own true road, forget me, For my ghost&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/alison-max\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ashwell.info\/roy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}