{"id":136660,"date":"2025-04-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136660"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:23:07","slug":"christina-rossetti-for-easter-speech-is-left-speechless-set-you-to-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136660","title":{"rendered":"Christina Rossetti for Easter&#8211;&#8216;Speech is left speechless;\u2014 Set you to singing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words cannot utter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christ His returning:\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mankind, keep Jubilee,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strip off your mourning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crown you with garlands,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set your lamps burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speech is left speechless;\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set you to singing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fling your hearts open wide,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set your bells ringing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christ the Chief Reaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comes, His sheaf bringing&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/lit-hub\/the-sacred-poets-of-the-nineteenth-century\/christina-g-rossetti-18301894-19\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Easter Monday &#x2600;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GHioesF7no\">pic.twitter.com\/GHioesF7no<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ailish Sinclair (@AilishSinclair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AilishSinclair\/status\/1914204053107617836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words cannot utter Christ His returning:\u2014 Mankind, keep Jubilee, Strip off your mourning, Crown you with garlands, Set your lamps burning. Speech is left speechless;\u2014 Set you to singing, Fling your hearts open wide, Set your bells ringing: Christ the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136660\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136662,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136660\/revisions\/136662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}