{"id":2273,"date":"2025-07-23T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:01:14","slug":"and-the-stranger-will-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/and-the-stranger-will-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"AND THE STRANGER WILL DEPART"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1444\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1.png\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece. The background includes small pencil illustrations of stars and plants. Select words and phrases from the original poem have been highlighted in green, forming a new poetic message.\" class=\"wp-image-2275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1-709x1024.png 709w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1-768x1109.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1-940x1357.png 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/And-the-Stranger-will-depart._-Unknown-1-400x578.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Unknown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AND THE STRANGER WILL DEPART<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Stranger will depart<br><br>my soul, be prepared<br><br>prepared for him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O weariness of men<br>the grandeur of mind<br><br>To arts and inventions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blinding the earth<br>Exploiting the seas developing the mountains,<br>Dividing the stars<br>Engaged in devising<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plotting of happiness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For nation or race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one who remembers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life you may evade, but Death<br>shall not deny the Stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Unknown AND THE STRANGER WILL DEPART And the Stranger will depart my soul, be prepared prepared for him O weariness of menthe grandeur of mind To arts and inventions Blinding the earthExploiting the seas developing the mountains,Dividing the starsEngaged in devising Plotting of happiness For nation or race There is one who remembers Life&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erasedland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}