{"id":26398,"date":"1979-12-31T18:11:50","date_gmt":"1979-12-31T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26398"},"modified":"2013-04-06T18:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:17:16","slug":"helen-holmes-a-phantasy-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26398","title":{"rendered":"Helen Holmes &#8211; A Phantasy (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From &#8216;<a title=\"Bohemian Bagatelle (1979)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26383\">Bohemian Bagatelle<\/a>&#8216;, published 1979 by the Bohemians]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A PHANTASY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sea, whose sister is the Moon,<\/p>\n<p>Reflects her beauty as her own;<\/p>\n<p>And spirits formed of shimmering light,<\/p>\n<p>Go dancing down the pathway bright<\/p>\n<p>That leads to where the sky and sea<\/p>\n<p>Meet in perfect harmony.<\/p>\n<p>They sing of caves with sparkling gems<\/p>\n<p>Whence lilies borne on silver stems,<\/p>\n<p>Drawn by the moon, come weaving up,<\/p>\n<p>And opening wide their silver cup<\/p>\n<p>Absorbs the moonbeams\u2019 precious flow<\/p>\n<p>While swaying gently to and fro.<\/p>\n<p>The spirits dancing gaily come<\/p>\n<p>And lead their horses born of foam,<\/p>\n<p>Who neighing, quickly kneel to drink<\/p>\n<p>The lilies\u2019 nectar ere they sink<\/p>\n<p>Down to their jewelled caves to sleep<\/p>\n<p>Among the treasure of the deep.<\/p>\n<p>Then on the surface of the sea<\/p>\n<p>The Spirits gather silently,<\/p>\n<p>And, as the pale moon fades away,<\/p>\n<p>They vanish into the sea and spray;<\/p>\n<p>Their horses, turned to foam once more,<\/p>\n<p>Rest on the pebbles by the shore.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea, whose sister has withdrawn,<\/p>\n<p>Awaits to greet the coming Dawn,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Helen Holmes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PHANTASY \u00a0 The Sea, whose sister is the Moon, Reflects her beauty as her own; And spirits formed of shimmering light, Go dancing down the pathway bright That leads to where the sky and sea Meet in perfect harmony. They&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26398\">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":[248,109,111],"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\/26398"}],"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=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26405,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/26405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}