{"id":25635,"date":"1980-12-11T12:09:29","date_gmt":"1980-12-11T12:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25635"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T16:24:21","slug":"louise-stuart-a-walk-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25635","title":{"rendered":"Louise Stuart &#8211; &#8220;A Walk in Spring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<br \/>\n<strong>A Walk in Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today I walked in a woodland glade,<br \/>\nBeneath the tall trees\u2019 leafy shade.<br \/>\nI wandered there disconsolate,<br \/>\nPondering my cheerless Fate.<br \/>\nMy heart was sad, wondering when<br \/>\nFortune would smile on me again.<\/p>\n<p>A bird was singing high above,<br \/>\nTrilling out his song of love.<br \/>\nMy eyes downcast upon the ground<br \/>\nMissed the beauty all around.<\/p>\n<p>A scurrying rabbit startled me.<br \/>\nLifting my eyes, I then could see<br \/>\nThe glory of a copper beech tree,<br \/>\nSpreading its branches over me.<\/p>\n<p>A subtle perfume filled the air.<br \/>\nPrimroses and violets fair<br \/>\nAt my feet were growing there;<br \/>\nI stopped to pick the fragile flowers,<br \/>\nThen made my way home through the showers.<br \/>\nThe sun came out, and changed the scene,<br \/>\nMy sad heart became serene.<br \/>\nThis was God\u2019s creation, life reborn,<br \/>\nThe wonder of a new Spring morn.<br \/>\nI had eyes to see \u2013 Beauty was Free.<br \/>\nIt is mine for the Seeking!<\/p>\n<p>Louise Stuart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. A Walk in Spring Today I walked in a woodland glade, Beneath the tall trees\u2019 leafy shade. I wandered there disconsolate, Pondering my cheerless Fate. My heart was sad, wondering&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25635\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25635"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27053,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635\/revisions\/27053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}