{"id":9906,"date":"2022-02-09T11:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2022-02-09T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:21:29","slug":"the-slave-singing-at-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=9906","title":{"rendered":"The Slave Singing at Midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longfellow-only.12.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longfellow-only.12-223x300.gif\" alt=\"longfellow-only.12\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9914\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longfellow-only.12-223x300.gif 223w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longfellow-only.12-768x1034.gif 768w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/longfellow-only.12-760x1024.gif 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is one of several poems regarding slavery written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807\u20131882. The woodcut of Longfellow was part of a news article in Mary Ann Eldred Austin\u2019s Scrapbook.<\/em>\u2014Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann, <em>p. 135.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Loud he sang the psalm of David!<br \/>\n\tHe, a Negro and enslaved,<br \/>\nSang of Israel\u2019s victory,<br \/>\n\tSang of Zion, bright and free. <\/p>\n<p>In that hour, when night is calmest,<br \/>\n\tSang he from the Hebrew Psalmist,<br \/>\nIn a voice so sweet and clear<br \/>\n\tThat I could not choose but hear, <\/p>\n<p>Songs of triumph, and ascriptions,<br \/>\n\tSuch as reached the swart Egyptians,<br \/>\nWhen upon the Red Sea coast<br \/>\n\tPerished Pharaoh and his host. <\/p>\n<p>And the voice of his devotion<br \/>\n\tFilled my soul with strange emotion;<br \/>\nFor its tones by turns were glad,<br \/>\n\tSweetly solemn, wildly sad. <\/p>\n<p>Paul and Silas, in their prison,<br \/>\n\tSang of Christ, the Lord arisen.<br \/>\nAnd an earthquake\u2019s arm of might<br \/>\n\tBroke their dungeon-gates at night. <\/p>\n<p>But, alas! what holy angel<br \/>\n\tBrings the Slave this glad evangel?<br \/>\nAnd what earthquake\u2019s arm of might<br \/>\n\tBreaks his dungeon-gates at night?<br \/>\n\u2014Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of several poems regarding slavery written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807\u20131882. The woodcut of Longfellow was part of a news article in Mary Ann Eldred Austin\u2019s Scrapbook.\u2014Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann, p. 135. Loud he sang the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=9906\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9906\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}