{"id":490,"date":"2014-04-30T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/?p=490"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:34:33","slug":"the-leaden-eyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/2014\/04\/30\/the-leaden-eyed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leaden-Eyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this last day of National Poetry Month, here&#8217;s a poem frequently quoted by Dr. Ernest L. Boyer: Vachel Lindsay&#8217;s &#8220;The Leaden-Eyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Let not young souls be smothered out before<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It is the world&#8217;s one crime its babes grow dull,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Its poor ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boyerarchives.messiah.edu\/files\/Documents1\/1000%200000%201189ocr.pdf\"><em>Quoted in a speech entitled &#8220;Truth in Education,&#8221; October 29, 1979.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this last day of National Poetry Month, here&#8217;s a poem frequently quoted by Dr. Ernest L. Boyer: Vachel Lindsay&#8217;s &#8220;The Leaden-Eyed.&#8221; Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world&#8217;s one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1306,1416,81,1417,1418],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ernest-l-boyer","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-poetry","tag-the-leaden-eyed","tag-vachel-lindsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}