{"id":83,"date":"1985-01-11T08:51:04","date_gmt":"1985-01-11T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:16:42","slug":"aeacus-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/01\/11\/aeacus-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeacus Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The precocious forbearance of the child,<br \/>\nWhom with his chosen cells is entwined;<br \/>\nErewhile what entities has he defiled?<br \/>\nThe clandestine Aeacus within did find<br \/>\n(In former Sisyphean sojourns)<br \/>\nHimself guilty &#8211; he now returns,<br \/>\nThe penitential laws to fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>Now should he find those laws of grace,<br \/>\nThat karmic rock he would not bear.<br \/>\nFreed from his hill and from this place;<br \/>\nMade worthy and redeemed by prayer<br \/>\nOf Love and forgiveness for those forays<br \/>\nMade on his will in former days:<br \/>\nThe lessons truly learnt by him.<\/p>\n<p>But should these lessons go unheeded,<br \/>\nAnd failing forgiveness, his lifetime penance:<br \/>\nHis Erebus created by his will&#8217;s freedom,<br \/>\nTo which, by his thought, he&#8217;s now sentenced;<br \/>\nFor thoughts are deeds and deeds are real;<br \/>\nHis eternity of these is what he now feels.<br \/>\nAeacus within takes no side but fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precocious forbearance of the child,<br \/> Whom with his chosen cells is entwined;<br \/> Erewhile what entities has he defiled?<br \/> The clandestine Aeacus within did find<br \/> (In former Sisyphean sojourns)<br \/> Himself guilty &#8211; he now returns,<br \/> The penitential laws to fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>Now should he find those laws of grace,<br \/> That karmic rock he would [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}