{"id":964,"date":"2011-05-08T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-05-08T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T13:18:29","slug":"where-away-by-james-whitcomb-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/where-away-by-james-whitcomb-riley\/","title":{"rendered":"Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Where-Away<\/h1>\n

by James Whitcomb Riley<\/p>\n

O the Lands of Where-Away!
\nTell us?tell us?where are they?
\nThrough the darkness and the dawn
\nWe have journeyed on and on?
\nFrom the cradle to the cross?
\nFrom possession unto loss,?
\nSeeking still, from day to day,
\nFor the lands of Where-Away.<\/p>\n

When our baby-feet were first
\nPlanted where the daisies burst,
\nAnd the greenest grasses grew
\nIn the fields we wandered through,
\nOn, with childish discontent,
\nEver on and on we went,
\nHoping still to pass, some day,
\nO’er the verge of Where-Away.<\/p>\n

Roses laid their velvet lips
\nOn our own, with fragrant sips;
\nBut their kisses held us not,
\nAll their sweetness we forgot;?
\nThough the brambles in our track
\nPlucked at us to hold us back?
\n“Just ahead,” we used to say,
\n“Lie the Lands of Where-Away.”<\/p>\n

Children at the pasture-bars,
\nThrough the dusk, like glimmering stars,
\nWaved their hands that we should bide
\nWith them over eventide:
\nDown the dark their voices failed
\nFalteringly, as they hailed,
\nAnd died into yesterday?
\nNight ahead and?Where-Away?<\/p>\n

Twining arms about us thrown?
\nWarm caresses, all our own,
\nCan but stay us for a spell?
\nLove hath little new to tell
\nTo the soul in need supreme,
\nAching ever with the dream
\nOf the endless bliss it may
\nFind in Lands of Where-Away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley O the Lands of Where-Away! Tell us?tell us?where are they? Through the darkness and the dawn We have journeyed on and on? From the cradle to the cross? From possession unto loss,? Seeking still, from day to day, For the lands of Where-Away. When our baby-feet were first Planted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}