{"id":872,"date":"2022-02-06T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=872"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:24:11","slug":"elliott-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/elliott-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-116.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-565\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-116.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I looked like Abraham Lincoln.<br \/>\nI was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,<br \/>\nBut standing for the rights of property and for order.<br \/>\nA regular church attendant,<br \/>\nSometimes appearing in your town meetings to warn you<br \/>\nAgainst the evils of discontent and envy<br \/>\nAnd to denounce those who tried to destroy the Union,<br \/>\nAnd to point to the peril of the Knights of Labor.<br \/>\nMy success and my example are inevitable influences<br \/>\nIn your young men and in generations to come,<br \/>\nIn spite of attacks of newspapers like the\u00a0<i>Clarion;<\/i><br \/>\nA regular visitor at Springfield<br \/>\nWhen the Legislature was in session<br \/>\nTo prevent raids upon the railroads<br \/>\nAnd the men building up the state.<br \/>\nTrusted by them and by you, Spoon River, equally<br \/>\nIn spite of the whispers that I was a lobbyist.<br \/>\nMoving quietly through the world, rich and courted.<br \/>\nDying at last, of course, but lying here<br \/>\nUnder a stone with an open book carved upon it<br \/>\nAnd the words\u00a0<i>\u201cOf such is the Kingdom of Heaven.\u201d<\/i><br \/>\nAnd now, you world-savers, who reaped nothing in life<br \/>\nAnd in death have neither stones nor epitaphs,<br \/>\nHow do you like your silence from mouths stopped<br \/>\nWith the dust of my triumphant career?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-176.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-547 size-thumbnail\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-176.svg\" alt=\"Flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/oaks-tutt\/\">Previous: Oaks Tutt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/voltaire-johnson\/\">Next: Voltaire Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights of property and for order. A regular church attendant, Sometimes appearing in your town meetings to warn you Against the evils of discontent and envy And to denounce those who tried to destroy the Union, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[185,186,91],"class_list":["post-872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-knights-of-labor","tag-spoon-river-clarion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/872\/revisions\/954"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}