{"id":2838,"date":"2014-04-17T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2014-04-16T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T01:37:55","slug":"drunken-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/drunken-charlie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunken Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
   He has spent his life at sea,\r\n   He has sailed the wide world o'er,\r\nNow a castaway he drifts about the town.\r\n   For his fate no mortal grieves;\r\n   Not a living soul believes\r\nThat there's any good in drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   Hark! the minute gun's loud boom\r\n   Brings a tale of wreck and doom:\r\nTo the beach a hundred daring men have flown;\r\n   And the first to leap from shore,\r\n   And the first to grasp an oar,\r\nIs the foolish seaman, drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   Led by each successive flash,\r\n   Through the darkness on they dash\u2013-\r\n'Tis a gallant little boat of great renown;\r\n   And the hand which guides her right,\r\n   By the cannon's fitful light,\r\nIs the worthless hand of drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   Soon the listeners on the pier\r\n   Catch and echo back a cheer,\r\nWhich the rush of angry waters cannot drown;\r\n   'Tis the lifeboat full in view,\r\n   And she brings a double crew--\r\nBut she comes without poor drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   At the early dawn of day\r\n   Thousands flock to search the bay\r\nWhere the shatter'd spars and wreck are widely strewn;\r\n   And no eye withholds a tear\r\n   When, at length, four tars appear\r\nWith the dripping corpse of drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   To his mother's grave hard by,\r\n   He is carried shoulder high,\r\nAnd the shipwreck'd sailors gentle lay him down--\r\n   Their old captain at the head--\r\n   In his cold and narrow bed,--\r\nSo farewell to poor drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   Now, the erring or unwise\r\n   Doth thou in thy soul despise!\r\nArt thy ready with thy sentence and thy frown!\r\n   Go--its lesson thou dost need--\r\n   Seek the quiet churchyard, and read\r\nThere--the Epitaph of Drunken Charlie Brown.\r\n\r\n   THE EPITAPH\r\n   A friendly orphan, early left\r\n     Unguarded in his wayward youth,\r\n   He lived in later years, bereft\r\n     Of virtue, temperance and truth.\r\n\r\n   The Pharasaic world passed by--\r\n     \"I thank thee, God,\" in every feature--\r\n   And showed its Christianity\r\n     By shunning such a \"wretched creature.\"\r\n\r\n   What for him Christians would not do,\r\n     The \"Sinner\" nobly did for others:\r\n   He died for us<\/em>, a foreign crew,\r\n     And earned this tribute from his brothers.<\/pre>\n
poem by Ebenezer Smith, from the book Verses<\/em>, published in 1871.<\/p>\n
(Ran across that while in a Wikipedia discussion of whether it was possible that the Coaster’s song “Charlie Brown” – you know, the one who calls the English teacher “Daddy-o” – was not inspired by Schulz’s work.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He has spent his life at sea, He has sailed the wide world o’er, Now a castaway he drifts about the town. For his fate no mortal grieves; Not a living soul believes That there’s any good in drunken Charlie Brown. Hark! the minute gun’s loud boom Brings a tale … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}