{"id":35753512,"date":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/09\/02\/Advice-to-a-Prophet-by-Richard-Wilbur\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:53:22","slug":"Advice-to-a-Prophet-by-Richard-Wilbur\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=35753512","title":{"rendered":"Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/advice-to-a-prophet\">http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/advice-to-a-prophet<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/2KJSOc\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/advice-to-a-prophet\/t:4aefa0e69588e;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ericcastro\/491036363\/\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/217\/491036363_0caa5b9053.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 420px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 0px 45px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background:  url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 450px; margin-left : 100px;\">When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,<br \/> Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,<br \/> Not proclaiming our fall but begging us<br \/> In God&#39;s name to have self-pity,<\/p>\n<p> Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range,<br \/> The long numbers that rocket the mind;<br \/> Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left behind,<br \/> Unable to fear what is too strange.<\/p>\n<p> Nor shall you scare us with talk of the death of the race.<br \/> How should we dream of this place without us?&#8211;<br \/> The sun mere fire, the leaves untroubled about us,<br \/> A stone look on the stone&#39;s face?<\/p>\n<p> Speak of the world&#39;s own change. Though we cannot conceive<br \/> Of an undreamt thing, we know to our cost<br \/> How the dreamt cloud crumbles, the vines are blackened by frost,<br \/> How the view alters. We could believe,<\/p>\n<p> If you told us so, that the white-tailed deer will slip<br \/> Into perfect shade, grown perfectly shy,<br \/> The lark avoid the reaches of our eye,<br \/> The jack-pine lose its knuckled grip<\/p>\n<p> On the cold ledge, and every torrent burn<br \/> As Xanthus once, its gliding trout<br \/> Stunned in a twinkling. What should we be without<br \/> The dolphin&#39;s arc, the dove&#39;s return,<\/p>\n<p> These things in which we have seen ourselves and spoken?<br \/> Ask us, prophet, how we shall call<br \/> Our natures forth when that live tongue is all<br \/> Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken<\/p>\n<p> In which we have said the rose of our love and the clean<br \/> Horse of our courage, in which beheld<br \/> The singing locust of the soul unshelled,<br \/> And all we mean or wish to mean.<\/p>\n<p> Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose<br \/> Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding<br \/> Whether there shall be lofty or long standing<br \/> When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close<br \/><b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n<p><i style=\"display : block; text-align : right; color : #666;\">&#8211; Richard Wilbur<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/isola81\/2866792579\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3287\/2866792579_c29658e655.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/advice-to-a-prophet When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city, Mad-eyed from stating the obvious, Not proclaiming our fall but begging us In God&#39;s name to have self-pity, Spare us all word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=35753512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35753512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35753512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35753512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35753512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}