{"id":312,"date":"2010-03-28T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=312"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:02:58","slug":"on-time-by-john-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/on-time-by-john-milton\/","title":{"rendered":"ON TIME by John Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/629px-John-milton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-205 lazyload\" title=\"629px-John-milton\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/629px-John-milton-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/629px-John-milton-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/629px-John-milton.jpg 629w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/286;\" \/><\/a>John Milton (1608-1674)<\/p>\n<p>Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,<br \/>\nCall on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,<br \/>\nWhose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;<br \/>\nAnd glut thy self with what thy womb devours,<br \/>\nWhich is no more then what is false and vain,<br \/>\nAnd meerly mortal dross;<br \/>\nSo little is our loss,<br \/>\nSo little is thy gain.<br \/>\nFor when as each thing bad thou hast entomb&#8217;d,<br \/>\nAnd last of all, thy greedy self consum&#8217;d,<br \/>\nThen long Eternity shall greet our bliss<br \/>\nWith an individual kiss;<br \/>\nAnd Joy shall overtake us as a flood,<br \/>\nWhen every thing that is sincerely good<br \/>\nAnd perfectly divine,<br \/>\nWith Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine<br \/>\nAbout the supreme Throne<br \/>\nOf him, t&#8217;whose happy-making sight alone,<br \/>\nWhen once our heav&#8217;nly-guided soul shall clime,<br \/>\nThen all this Earthy grosnes quit,<br \/>\nAttir&#8217;d with Stars, we shall for ever sit,<br \/>\nTriumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Milton (1608-1674) Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and vain, And meerly mortal dross; So little is our loss, So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1600s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}