{"id":101715,"date":"2021-06-27T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101715"},"modified":"2021-06-27T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:56:48","slug":"poem-23-a-tribute-to-francis-dana-barker-gage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-23-a-tribute-to-francis-dana-barker-gage\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 23: A Tribute to Francis Dana Barker Gage  &#8220;We Will&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our future to see<\/p>\n<p>What will our injustice and cruelty flout<\/p>\n<p>cleaning up the historic debris<\/p>\n<p>as we exercise our newfound clout<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The politicians with all the words of know<\/p>\n<p>will no longer have their show<\/p>\n<p>They will be put where they belong<\/p>\n<p>singing a soulful begrudging song<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been called gentle<\/p>\n<p>will have their say, in more ways than one<\/p>\n<p>No longer accused of being temperamental<\/p>\n<p>For them, the instructors of our law will be done<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wars that kill us, in the name of country<\/p>\n<p>Their ignorant cry of bounty<\/p>\n<p>There will be a peaceful transaction<\/p>\n<p>of good towards our neighbour\u2019s station<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Corruption, fraud and lies<\/p>\n<p>Not permitted in the new party\u2019s world<\/p>\n<p>I hear the angry impatient cries<\/p>\n<p>that will roll out the carpet of dreams unfurled<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those drunken men of wife and child<\/p>\n<p>No longer permitted in their inns so wild<\/p>\n<p>The dens of iniquity shall be destroyed<\/p>\n<p>and the many numbers of our grace employed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is time for the voice of suffrage to abound<\/p>\n<p>and never stop until the old force is thrown<\/p>\n<p>We know the answer, it has been found<\/p>\n<p>and the new winds of victory blown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our future to see What will our injustice and cruelty flout cleaning up the historic debris as we exercise our newfound clout &nbsp; The politicians with all the words of know will no longer have their show They will be put where they belong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103485,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101715\/revisions\/103485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}