{"id":866,"date":"2022-02-06T14:14:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=866"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:40:33","slug":"percival-sharp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/percival-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Percival Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-190.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-190.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Observe the clasped hands!<br \/>\nAre they hands of farewell or greeting,<br \/>\nHands that I helped or hands that helped me?<br \/>\nWould it not be well to carve a hand<br \/>\nWith an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus?<br \/>\nAnd yonder is a broken chain,<br \/>\nThe weakest-link idea perhaps\u2014<br \/>\nBut what was it?<br \/>\nAnd lambs, some lying down,<br \/>\nOthers standing, as if listening to the shepherd\u2014<br \/>\nOthers bearing a cross, one foot lifted up\u2014<br \/>\nWhy not chisel a few shambles?<br \/>\nAnd fallen columns!<br \/>\nCarve the pedestal, please,<br \/>\nOr the foundations; let us see the cause of the fall.<br \/>\nAnd compasses and mathematical instruments,<br \/>\nIn irony of the under tenants, ignorance<br \/>\nOf determinants and the calculus of variations.<br \/>\nAnd anchors, for those who never sailed.<br \/>\nAnd gates ajar\u2014yes, so they were;<br \/>\nYou left them open and stray goats entered your garden.<br \/>\nAnd an eye watching like one of the Arimaspi\u2014<br \/>\nSo did you\u2014with one eye.<br \/>\nAnd angels blowing trumpets\u2014you are heralded\u2014<br \/>\nIt is your horn and your angel and your family\u2019s estimate.<br \/>\nIt is all very well, but for myself<br \/>\nI know I stirred certain vibrations in Spoon River<br \/>\nWhich are my true epitaph, more lasting than stone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-191.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-541 size-thumbnail\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-191.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-trevelyan\/\">Previous: Thomas Trevelyan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/hiram-scates\/\">Next: Hiram Scates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the clasped hands! Are they hands of farewell or greeting, Hands that I helped or hands that helped me? Would it not be well to carve a hand With an inverted thumb, like Elagabalus? And yonder is a broken chain, The weakest-link idea perhaps\u2014 But what was it? And lambs, some lying down, Others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/866\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}