{"id":252581,"date":"2022-09-13T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252581"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:23:37","slug":"rich-gifts-of-raiment-or-grain-or-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/09\/13\/rich-gifts-of-raiment-or-grain-or-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.galavantmedia.org\/archive\/is-there-aught-you-need-that-my-hands-withhold\/\">via Stacy-Marie Ishmael&#8217;s newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there aught you need that my hands withhold,<br>Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold?<br>Lo! I have flung to the East and West<br>Priceless treasures torn from my breast,<br>And yielded the sons of my stricken womb<br>To the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of doom.<br><br>Gathered like pearls in their alien graves<br>Silent they sleep by the Persian waves,<br>Scattered like shells on Egyptian sands,<br>They lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands,<br>They are strewn like blossoms mown down by chance<br>On the blood-brown meadows of Flanders and France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu, via Stacy-Marie Ishmael&#8217;s newsletter Is there aught you need that my hands withhold,Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold?Lo! I have flung to the East and WestPriceless treasures torn from my breast,And yielded the sons of my stricken wombTo the drum-beats of duty, the sabres of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/09\/13\/rich-gifts-of-raiment-or-grain-or-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}