{"id":994,"date":"2008-11-10T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:10:30","slug":"where-late-the-sweet-birds-sang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Where late the sweet birds sang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEarly fall has very quickly become middle fall. Though these pear trees up the road still have most of their leaves, the leaves on the trees in the woods are turning brown and falling. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.<\/p>\n

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\nA bare, ruin’d choir of woods below my house<\/p>\n

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\nA briar berry<\/p>\n

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\nA dried weed<\/p>\n

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\nThat time of year thou mayst behold thriving turnips and mustard.<\/p>\n

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\nSomething black and wicked tiptoes through the turnips. A Lily cat?<\/p>\n

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\nMy house seen from the woods<\/p>\n

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\nMy front door. I now have a shiny new doorkey to jingle in my pocket.<\/p>\n

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\nThese two shots of the house show some of the angles that made the house so tricky to build.<\/p>\n

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\nThe winter wind will whistle around these corners in a very gothic sort of way.<\/p>\n

Sonnet 73<\/strong><\/p>\n

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
\nWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
\nUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,
\nBare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
\nIn me thou seest the twilight of such day
\nAs after sunset fadeth in the west,
\nWhich by and by black night doth take away,
\nDeath’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
\nIn me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
\nThat on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
\nAs the death-bed whereon it must expire
\nConsumed with that which it was nourish’d by.
\n This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
\n To love that well which thou must leave ere long.<\/em><\/p>\n

— William Shakespeare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early fall has very quickly become middle fall. Though these pear trees up the road still have most of their leaves, the leaves on the trees in the woods are turning brown and falling. Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. A bare, ruin’d choir of woods below my house A briar berry A … Continue reading “Where late the sweet birds sang”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-relocalization","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}