{"id":456,"date":"2015-03-02T18:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=456"},"modified":"2015-03-19T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:19:27","slug":"by-the-rivers-of-babylon-we-sat-down-and-wept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/byron\/poems\/by-the-rivers-of-babylon-we-sat-down-and-wept\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept &#8211; Lord Byron Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1<br \/>\nWe sat down and wept by the waters<br \/>\nOf Babel, and thought of the day<br \/>\nWhen our foe, in the hue of his slaughters,<br \/>\nMade Salem&#8217;s high places his prey;<br \/>\nAnd ye, oh her desolate daughters!<br \/>\nWere scattered all weeping away.<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nWhile sadly we gazed on the river<br \/>\nWhich rolled on in freedom below,<br \/>\nThey demanded the song; but, oh never<br \/>\nThat triumph the stranger shall know!<br \/>\nMay this right hand be withered for ever,<br \/>\nEre it string our high harp for the foe!<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nOn the willow that harp is suspended,<br \/>\nOh Salem! its sound should be free;<br \/>\nAnd the hour when thy glories were<br \/>\nended<br \/>\nBut left me that token of thee:<br \/>\nAnd ne&#8217;er shall its soft tones be blended<br \/>\nWith the voice of the spoiler by me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 We sat down and wept by the waters Of Babel, and thought of the day When our foe, in the hue of his slaughters, Made Salem&#8217;s high places his prey; And ye, oh her desolate daughters! Were scattered all weeping away. 2 While sadly we gazed on the river Which rolled on in freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}