{"id":1968,"date":"2012-12-21T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:59:35","slug":"on-the-beach-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/on-the-beach-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Beach at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n<p>On the beach at night,<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Stands a child with her father,<\/div>\n<div>Watching the east, the autumn sky.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Up through the darkness,<\/div>\n<div>While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,<\/div>\n<div>Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,<\/div>\n<div>Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,<\/div>\n<div>Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,<\/div>\n<div>And nigh at hand, only a very little above,<\/div>\n<div>Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,<\/div>\n<div>Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,<\/div>\n<div>Watching, silently weeps.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Weep not, child,<\/div>\n<div>Weep not, my darling,<\/div>\n<div>With these kisses let me remove your tears,<\/div>\n<div>The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,<\/div>\n<div>They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,<\/div>\n<div>Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,<\/div>\n<div>They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,<\/div>\n<div>The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,<\/div>\n<div>The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?<\/div>\n<div>Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Something there is,<\/div>\n<div>(With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,<\/div>\n<div>I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)<\/div>\n<div>Something there is more immortal even than the stars,<\/div>\n<div>(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)<\/div>\n<div>Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter<\/div>\n<div>Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,<\/div>\n<div>Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on December 16. 2012<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Walt Whitman On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. &nbsp; Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky, Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}