{"id":28063,"date":"2019-03-22T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=28063"},"modified":"2019-03-22T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:09:37","slug":"say-not-the-struggle-nought-availeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/say-not-the-struggle-nought-availeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28064\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/knight3.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"958\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/arthur-hugh-clough\">ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Say not the struggle nought availeth,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The labour and the wounds are vain,<\/h3>\n<h3>The enemy faints not, nor faileth,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And as things have been they remain.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It may be, in yon smoke concealed,<\/h3>\n<h3>Your comrades chase e&#8217;en now the fliers,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And, but for you, possess the field.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>For while the tired waves, vainly breaking<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seem here no painful inch to gain,<\/h3>\n<h3>Far back through creeks and inlets making,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Comes silent, flooding in, the main.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>And not by eastern windows only,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When daylight comes, comes in the light,<\/h3>\n<h3>In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But westward, look, the land is bright.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BY\u00a0ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Say not the struggle nought availeth, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e&#8217;en now the fliers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6860],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}