{"id":1351,"date":"2014-12-27T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2014-12-27T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T17:03:08","slug":"the-war-poetry-of-oswald-berring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/the-war-poetry-of-oswald-berring\/","title":{"rendered":"The War Poetry of Oswald Berring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Enfield in Love <\/b><\/p>\n<p>He sits there smiling<\/p>\n<p>But his bloodied teeth<\/p>\n<p>Tell all who pass<\/p>\n<p>That he was betrayed<\/p>\n<p>By his first kiss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Lucy Brings a Lamp <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I want to see your face Lucy<\/p>\n<p>And know<\/p>\n<p>That when my nightmares cease<\/p>\n<p>Your love will cover me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Hideous Church<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago I might have worshipped<\/p>\n<p>At the church that now burns in front of me<\/p>\n<p>I would have sat with my French cousins<\/p>\n<p>Blessed in white and looked forward<\/p>\n<p>To our later walks in these fields<\/p>\n<p>Where I now hide bloodied and fearing for my life<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After this war ends the church will be rebuilt<\/p>\n<p>And I might visit it again<\/p>\n<p>With my French cousins<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in white<\/p>\n<p>But not for now<\/p>\n<p>For today it burns and has no history<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Oswald Berring (1886-1938)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enfield in Love He sits there smiling But his bloodied teeth Tell all who pass That he was betrayed By his first kiss &nbsp; Lucy Brings a Lamp I want to see your face Lucy And know That when my nightmares cease Your love will cover me &nbsp; The Hideous Church Twenty years ago I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}