{"id":2608,"date":"2013-08-10T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T05:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2013-08-10T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T05:23:29","slug":"the-lay-of-the-singing-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"The Lay of the Singing Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"TranquilSeaAni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TranquilSeaAni.gif\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2609\" alt=\"TranquilSeaAni\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TranquilSeaAni-250x250.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TranquilSeaAni-250x250.gif 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TranquilSeaAni-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Lay of the Singing Fool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a badness, there now too a madness<br \/>The shadow rises through this night<br \/>Given flame as those fires came<br \/>And split the heavens with their light.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Where had this one Darkness been?<br \/>Where now the blazing tumble fall<br \/>The skies above blaze white and green<br \/>The star shower grim to call.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>One solemn soul here doomed to live<br \/>In ages taut as boulders fly<br \/>To stretch his toil yet not forgive<br \/>Those chiliad soldiers doomed to die.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0This I saw! I saw it well<br \/>For it came to me through looking glass<br \/>And on its sorrow deep to dwell<br \/>Was it long ago this came to pass?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Or was this deed alone I see<br \/>In its myriad labours bright<br \/>Hastening in its lore to me<br \/>Came yet through this starry night?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>The void has spilled its rubble here<br \/>And dressed the night with flying flame<br \/>The searing sable decks to clear;<br \/>No more I see the night the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>For splendid sorrow once did fall;<br \/>I saw it in mine looking glass<br \/>And there the toils yet once to call<br \/>Is yet this horror come to pass?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0That solemn martyr doomed to live<br \/>That frantic look yet in his eye<br \/>That horror borne none to forgive<br \/>Those chiliad soldiers doomed to die.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Richard Jones<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}