{"id":249,"date":"2018-02-01T00:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:02:42","slug":"pslam_70_by_edward_clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2018\/02\/01\/pslam_70_by_edward_clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 70 by Edward Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"background: white; font: serif;\">                                    70\n\n\tI\u2019d like to set you to\n\t\t\tThe tune\n\t\tOf \u2018Wolves A-Howling\u2019,\n\tSo you can make no tarrying,\n\t\t\tAnd hurry\n\t\tOut across\n\tThe peaks of wild Arkansas,\n\tThe heights of south Missouri:\n\tMake haste, O Lord, to help me,\n\tMake haste, O God, to seize me,\nCan\u2019t you see the wolves a-howling\nAll round my pretty little darling?\n\t\tThe tail end of\n\t\tAnother text\n\t\tThe prelude to\n\t\tThe song that\u2019s next,\nThis song is but an interlude\n\t\tOf perfect prayer\n\tWith hardly any words\n\tThat fiddlers howl with care.\n\tAnd I would put it in\n\t\tSome wild quatrains\n\t\tTo try and heed\n\t\tThe word that frames\n\t\t\tIts words:\n\t\t\tMake haste,\n\tLet them be confused\n\t\t\tThat chase\n\t\tMy living soul,\n\t\t\tThat howl\n\t\tAnd are a-howling\n\t\tAll round my darling.\n\t\tLet all that seek you\n\t\tExult and howl,\n\tLet God be magnified\n\t\tInside my soul.\n\tAs I am poor and needy\n\t\tMake haste to seize me:\n\tO how the wolves are howling\nAll around my poor little darling.\n<\/pre>\n<p><em>Edward Clarke&#8217;s latest book is called The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Daniele Idini<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70 I\u2019d like to set you to The tune Of \u2018Wolves A-Howling\u2019, So you can make no tarrying, And hurry Out across The peaks of wild Arkansas, The heights of south Missouri: Make haste, O Lord, to help me, Make haste, O God, to seize me, Can\u2019t you see the wolves a-howling All round my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[189],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018february"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}