{"id":5693,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5693"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:03:39","slug":"tea-a-parody-of-leisure-by-w-h-davies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/tea-a-parody-of-leisure-by-w-h-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea \\-A Parody of Leisure by W H Davies\\-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tea (A Parody of Leisure by W H Davies)<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on December 19, 2019.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhat would life be if, suddenly,<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t have a cup of tea.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t taste that perfect drink<br \/>\nWhenever I sat down to think<\/p>\n<p>Nor sit and sip, my only sin,<br \/>\nWhen England, sadly, didn&#8217;t win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI would not know what I could do<br \/>\nIf tragedy should fall on you.<\/p>\n<p>How could I soothe your tear-wracked heart;<br \/>\nWithout a brew to play the part<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOf oil upon the raging main,<br \/>\nUntil you saw the Sun again.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nHow would I ever celebrate<br \/>\nA piece of news that I deemed great,<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf teapot and the stuff itself<br \/>\nHad disappeared from off my shelf &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A poor life this if, suddenly<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t have a cup of tea &#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nWith apologies to W H Davies, I&#8217;m sure you can find his &#8220;Leisure&#8221; on allpoetry<br \/>\nbut it was much easier on the old site using oldpoetry.com but https:\/\/<br \/>\nallpoetry.com\/Leisure might work for you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea (A Parody of Leisure by W H Davies) by cricketjeff on December 19, 2019.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved What would life be if, suddenly, I couldn&#8217;t have a cup of tea. \u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t taste that perfect drink Whenever I sat down to think Nor sit and sip, my only sin, When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5693","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5693\/revisions\/5816"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}