{"id":1984,"date":"2004-04-24T07:44:41","date_gmt":"2004-04-24T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/04\/24\/1984.html"},"modified":"2004-04-24T07:44:41","modified_gmt":"2004-04-24T14:44:41","slug":"be-like-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/04\/24\/be-like-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Be like a bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a round (we learned it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libana.com\/\">Libana<\/a>) to which the lyrics go:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Be like a bird, who, halting in her flight<\/p>\n<p>On a limb too slight, feels it give way beneath her;<\/p>\n<p>Yet sings, sings, knowing she has wings;<\/p>\n<p>Yet sings, sings, knowing she has wings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lyrics turn out to be an adaptation of a Victor Hugo poem (at least I think it's a poem), with music by Arthur Frackenpohl.  The Victor Hugo piece, at least in one English version, goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Let us be like a bird for a moment perched<\/p>\n<p>On a frail branch when he sings;<\/p>\n<p>Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song,<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that he has wings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it was Jay S. who once commented, while listening to roundsingers singing the song: \"The hard part is knowing you have wings.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a round (we learned it from Libana) to which the lyrics go: Be like a bird, who, halting in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}