{"id":1551,"date":"2011-12-09T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:10:38","slug":"poem-for-the-ending-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/12\/09\/poem-for-the-ending-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for the ending of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Baccalaureate&#8221; by Archibald MacLeish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A YEAR or two, and grey Euripides,<br \/>\nAnd Horace and a Lydia or so,<br \/>\nAnd Euclid and the brush of Angelo,<br \/>\nDarwin on man, Vergilius on bees,<br \/>\nThe nose and Dialogues of Socrates,<br \/>\nDon Quixote, Hudibras and Trinculo,<br \/>\nHow worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go,&#8211;<br \/>\nAll shall be shard of broken memories.<\/p>\n<p>And there shall linger other, magic things,&#8211;<br \/>\nThe fog that creeps in wanly from the sea,<br \/>\nThe rotton harbor smell, the mystery<br \/>\nOf moonlit elms, the flash of pigeon wings,<br \/>\nThe sunny Green, the old-world peace that clings<br \/>\nAbout the college yard, where endlessly<br \/>\nThe dead go up and down. These things shall be<br \/>\nEnchantment of our heart&#8217;s rememberings.<\/p>\n<p>And these are more than memories of youth<br \/>\nWhich earth&#8217;s four winds of pain shall blow away;<br \/>\nThese are earth&#8217;s symbols of eternal truth,<br \/>\nSymbols of dream and imagery and flame,<br \/>\nSymbols of those same verities that play<br \/>\nBright through the crumbling gold of a great name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Baccalaureate&#8221; by Archibald MacLeish: A YEAR or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of Angelo, Darwin on man, Vergilius on bees, The nose and Dialogues of Socrates, Don Quixote, Hudibras and Trinculo, How worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go,&#8211; All shall be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3830,3812,7130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}