{"id":633,"date":"2020-05-05T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=633"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:05:18","slug":"the-two-trees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=633","title":{"rendered":"The Two Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Two-Trees.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">for orchestra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">The Two Trees is my Master&#8217;s Thesis. It was inspired by W.B. Yeats&#8217; poem of the same name:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">The Two Trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,<br>The holy tree is growing there;<br>From joy the holy branches start,<br>And all the trembling flowers they bear.<br>The changing colours of its fruit<br>Have dowered the stars with merry light;<br>The surety of its hidden root<br>Has planted quiet in the night;<br>The shaking of its leafy head<br>Has given the waves their melody,<br>And made my lips and music wed,<br>Murmuring a wizard song for thee.<br>There the Loves a circle go,<br>The flaming circle of our days,<br>Gyring, spiring to and fro<br>In those great ignorant leafy ways;<br>Remembering all that shaken hair<br>And how the winged sandals dart,<br>Thine eyes grow full of tender care:<br>Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Gaze no more in the bitter glass<br>The demons, with their subtle guile,<br>Lift up before us when they pass,<br>Or only gaze a little while;<br>For there a fatal image grows<br>That the stormy night receives,<br>Roots half hidden under snows,<br>Broken boughs and blackened leaves.<br>For all things turn to barrenness<br>In the dim glass the demons hold,<br>The glass of outer weariness,<br>Made when God slept in times of old.<br>There, through the broken branches, go<br>The ravens of unresting thought;<br>Flying, crying, to and fro,<br>Cruel claw and hungry throat,<br>Or else they stand and sniff the wind,<br>And shake their ragged wings; alas!<br>Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:<br>Gaze no more in the bitter glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for orchestra The Two Trees is my Master&#8217;s Thesis. It was inspired by W.B. Yeats&#8217; poem of the same name: The Two Trees Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,The holy tree is growing there;From joy the holy branches start,And all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-633","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P31CW7-ad","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}