{"id":279,"date":"2010-11-19T22:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:24:39","slug":"czeslaw-milosz-a-song-on-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/279\/poems\/czeslaw-milosz-a-song-on-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Czeslaw Milosz &#8211; A Song on the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the days the world ends<br \/>\nA bee circles a clover,<br \/>\nA fisherman mends a glimmering net.<br \/>\nHappy porpoises jump in the sea,<br \/>\nBy the rainspout young sparrows are playing<br \/>\nAnd the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.<\/p>\n<p>On the day the world ends<br \/>\nWomen walk through the fields under their umbrellas,<br \/>\nA drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,<br \/>\nVegetable peddlers shout in the street<br \/>\nAnd a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,<br \/>\nThe voice of a violin lasts in the air<br \/>\nAnd leads into a starry night.<\/p>\n<p>And those who expected lightning and thunder<br \/>\nAre disappointed.<br \/>\nAnd those who expected signs and archangels&#8217; trumps<br \/>\nDo not believe it is happening now.<br \/>\nAs long as the sun and moon are above,<br \/>\nAs long as the bumblebee visits a rose,<br \/>\nAs long as rosy infants are born<br \/>\nNo one believes it is happening now.<\/p>\n<p>Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet<br \/>\nYet is not a prophet, for he&#8217;s much too busy,<br \/>\nRepeats while he binds his tomatoes:<br \/>\nThere will be no other end of the world,<br \/>\nThere will be no other end of the world.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the days the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump in the sea, By the rainspout young sparrows are playing And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be. On the day the world ends Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas, A <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/279\/poems\/czeslaw-milosz-a-song-on-the-end-of-the-world\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}