{"id":173,"date":"2005-04-20T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-03-25T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:57:02","slug":"ancient-hymn-for-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Ancient hymn for a new day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Book 1, Hymn 49, Dawn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Come to us, come down, to our realm<br \/>\nfrom beyond the bright sky. Come, o dawn,<br \/>\ndrawn by fiery horses, come to the house<br \/>\nwhere he pours out fragrant juice.<\/p>\n<p>Your bright chariot, pulled by fiery horses,<br \/>\nis shaped to please the eye, light and agile,<br \/>\no dawn. And you climb in it, coming here,<br \/>\ncoming to aid mortals with noble aims.<\/p>\n<p>O dawn, bright sky being, your coming<br \/>\nawakens creatures to wander earth,<br \/>\nstirs flocks of birds into sky, flying now<br \/>\nto all the boundaries of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Your radiant light, o dawn, grows bright,<br \/>\nthe sky above and around us grows bright,<br \/>\nyour beauty brought to earth. We call you,<br \/>\njust as you are, with our sacred songs.<\/p>\n<p><em>(adaptation of a hymn from Ralph T. H. Griffith&#8217;s translation of the Rig Veda)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 1, Hymn 49, Dawn Come to us, come down, to our realm from beyond the bright sky. Come, o dawn, drawn by fiery horses, come to the house where he pours out fragrant juice. Your bright chariot, pulled by fiery horses, is shaped to please the eye, light and agile, o dawn. And you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,202],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","tag-hymns","tag-rig-veda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}