O cold, inexorable darkness
\nDraw back now beyond these circling walls.
\nShould fear, and want, and danger walk
\nIt shall not be, it is not here.<\/p>\n
Let this place of warming light
\nBulwark against freezing night: a promise
\nHolding through the day that we, come nightfall
\nMay sleep safely, cozy, soundly in the soft
\nDown drift of love and food and enough.<\/p>\n
Pass on, cold night. Howl your rages,
\nPelt your icy javelins. Blot the stars and
\nDance the barren trees in anger.
\nBut come not here. Pour upon the freezing ground
\nYour brutal rain, but step
\nNot one foot within this woolen nest.<\/p>\n
Have your time, o winter dark. But pass us by,
\nWe creatures huddling here.<\/p>\n
With all that has been taken
\nLet not more be taken.<\/p>\n
For each calamity you measure
\nSlip past, mighty winter.<\/p>\n
Have mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
O cold, inexorable darkness Draw back now beyond these circling walls. Should fear, and want, and danger walk It shall not be, it is not here. Let this place of warming light Bulwark against freezing night: a promise Holding through the day that we, come nightfall May sleep safely, cozy, soundly in the soft Down drift of love and food and enough. Pass on, cold night. Howl your rages, Pelt your icy javelins. Blot the stars and Dance the barren trees in anger. But come not here. Pour upon the freezing ground Your brutal rain, but step Not one foot within this woolen nest. Have your time, o winter dark. But pass us by, We creatures huddling here. With all that has been taken Let not more be taken. For each calamity you measure Slip past, mighty winter. Have mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[85,108],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liturgy","category-practice","tag-poetry","tag-yule-or-midwinter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}