{"id":99,"date":"2007-03-26T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-30T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T15:25:33","slug":"sidney-lanier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/99","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Lanier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet, musician and scholar <a href=\"http:\/\/famousamericans.net\/sidneylanier\/\">Sidney Lanier<\/a> was a Virginian Civil War veteran who later served as organist at First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, AL and went on to teach at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. His poem &#8220;A Ballad of Trees and the Master&#8221; inspired this experimental sketch using computer and drawing tablet.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connect-learn.net\/grace-ed\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/3\/20070326-Garden.png\" height=\"150\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 150px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--age(20070326-Garden.png|600|150|--><\/p>\n<p><em>A Balled of Trees and the Master<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Into the woods my Master went,<br \/>\nClean forspent, forspent.<br \/>\nInto the woods my Master came,<br \/>\nForspent with love and shame.<br \/>\nBut the olives they were not blind to Him,<br \/>\nThe little gray leaves were kind to Him:<br \/>\nThe thorn-tree had a mind to Him<br \/>\nWhen into the woods He came.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the woods my Master went,<br \/>\nAnd He was well content.<br \/>\nOut of the woods my Master came,<br \/>\nContent with death and shame.<br \/>\nWhen Death and Shame would woo Him last,<br \/>\nFrom under the trees they drew Him last:<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas on a tree they slew Him &#8212; last<br \/>\nWhen out of the woods He came.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Sidney Lanier<\/p>\n<p>(art by Israel Galindo)<br \/>\n<!--age(20070326-oraetlabora.png|436|80|Make a good Lent.--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet, musician and scholar Sidney Lanier was a Virginian Civil War veteran who later served as organist at First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, AL and went on to teach at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. His poem &#8220;A Ballad of Trees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/99\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}