{"id":688,"date":"2006-10-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/communal-kneeling-vigil.html"},"modified":"2006-10-05T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T15:25:00","slug":"communal-kneeling-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/10\/communal-kneeling-vigil.html","title":{"rendered":"A Communal &#8216;Kneeling Vigil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/p\/m\/poem.asp?poet=6616&amp;poem=31457\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Harvest Moon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,<br \/>Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,<br \/>A vast balloon,<br \/>Till it takes off, and sinks upward<br \/>To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.<br \/>The harvest moon has come,<br \/>Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.<br \/>And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.<\/p>\n<p>So people can&#8217;t sleep,<br \/>So they go out where elms and oak trees keep<br \/>A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.<br \/>The harvest moon has come!<\/p>\n<p>And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep<br \/>Stare up at her petrified, while she swells<br \/>Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing<br \/>Closer and closer like the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Till the gold fields of stiff wheat<br \/>Cry `We are ripe, reap us!&#8217; and the rivers<br \/>Sweat from the melting hills. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;Ted Hughes,<\/a> 1930-1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvest Moon The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,A vast balloon,Till it takes off, and sinks upwardTo lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.The harvest moon has come,Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum. 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