{"id":3904,"date":"2014-02-02T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2014-02-02T10:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T08:27:57","slug":"in-memory-of-a-happy-day-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of a Happy Day in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><a title=\"monet-paintings-1879-5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/monet-paintings-1879-5.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3910\" alt=\"monet-paintings-1879-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/monet-paintings-1879-5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">In Memory of a Happy Day in February<\/strong><br \/><br \/> Blessed be Thou for all the joy\r\nMy soul has felt today!\r\nO let its memory stay with me\r\nAnd never pass away! \r\nI was alone, for those I loved\r\nWere far away from me,\r\nThe sun shone on the withered grass,\r\nThe wind blew fresh and free. \r\n\r\nWas it the smile of early spring\r\nThat made my bosom glow?\r\n'Twas sweet, but neither sun nor wind\r\nCould raise my spirit so. \r\n\r\nWas it some feeling of delight,\r\nAll vague and undefined?\r\nNo, 'twas a rapture deep and strong,\r\nExpanding in the mind! \r\n\r\nWas it a sanguine view of life\r\nAnd all its transient bliss\u00ad-\r\nA hope of bright prosperity?\r\nO no, it was not this! \r\n\r\nIt was a glimpse of truth divine\r\nUnto my spirit given\r\nIllumined by a ray of light\r\nThat shone direct from heaven! \r\n\r\nI felt there was a God on high\r\nBy whom all things were made.\r\nI saw His wisdom and his power\r\nIn all his works displayed. \r\n\r\nBut most throughout the moral world\r\nI saw his glory shine;\r\nI saw His wisdom infinite,\r\nHis mercy all divine. \r\n\r\nDeep secrets of his providence\r\nIn darkness long concealed\r\nWere brought to my delighted eyes\r\nAnd graciously revealed. \r\n\r\nBut while I wondered and adored\r\nHis wisdom so divine,\r\nI did not tremble at his power,\r\nI felt that God was mine. \r\n\r\nI knew that my Redeemer lived,\r\nI did not fear to die;\r\nFull sure that I should rise again\r\nTo immortality. \r\n\r\nI longed to view that bliss divine\r\nWhich eye hath never seen,\r\nTo see the glories of his face\r\nWithout the veil between.<br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/>Anne Bront\u00e9<\/blockquote><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}