{"id":27061,"date":"2021-07-16T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/stevie-smith-oblivion#id30164"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:14:00","slug":"it-was-a-human-and-related-voice-that-cried-to-me-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/it-was-a-human-and-related-voice-that-cried-to-me-in-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a human and related voice \/ That cried to me in pain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/oblivion-has-always-been-my-story\/\">today&#39;s edition<\/a> of Nick Cave&#39;s <em>Red Hand Files<\/em>, we&#39;re currently absorbing Stevie Smith&#39;s &#8220;Oblivion&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>It was a human face in my oblivion<br \/>\nA human being and a human voice<br \/>\nThat cried to me, Come back, come back, come back.<br \/>\nBut I would not. I said I would not come back.<\/p>\n<p>It was so sweet in my oblivion<br \/>\nThere was a sweet mist wrapped me round about<br \/>\nAnd I trod in a sweet and milky sea, knee deep,<br \/>\nThat was so pretty and so beautiful, growing deeper.<\/p>\n<p>But still the voice cried out, Come back, come back,<br \/>\nCome back to me from sweet oblivion!<br \/>\nIt was a human and related voice<br \/>\nThat cried to me in pain. So I turned back.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot help but like Oblivion better<br \/>\nThan being a human heart and human creature,<br \/>\nBut I can wait for her, her gentle mist<br \/>\nAnd those sweet seas that deepen are my destiny<br \/>\nAnd must come even if not soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/stevie-smith-oblivion\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theredhandfiles.com\/oblivion-has-always-been-my-story\/\">today&#8217;s edition<\/a> of Nick Cave&#8217;s <em>Red Hand Files<\/em>, we&#8217;re currently absorbing Stevie Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Oblivion&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>It was a human face in my oblivion<br \/>\nA human being and a human voice<br \/>\nThat cried to me, Come back, come back, come back.<br \/>\nBut I would not. I said I would not come back.<\/p>\n<p>It was so sweet in my oblivion<br \/>\nThere was a sweet mist wrapped me round about<br \/>\nAnd I trod in a sweet and milky sea, knee deep,<br \/>\nThat was so pretty and so beautiful, growing deeper.<\/p>\n<p>But still the voice cried out, Come back, come back,<br \/>\nCome back to me from sweet oblivion!<br \/>\nIt was a human and related voice<br \/>\nThat cried to me in pain. So I turned back.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot help but like Oblivion better<br \/>\nThan being a human heart and human creature,<br \/>\nBut I can wait for her, her gentle mist<br \/>\nAnd those sweet seas that deepen are my destiny<br \/>\nAnd must come even if not soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/stevie-smith-oblivion\">View Post ?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27062,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions\/27062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}