{"id":3729,"date":"2018-07-07T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/HatchetOnline\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:02:29","slug":"lizzie-bordens-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/lizzie-bordens-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Borden&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">First published in May\/June, 2006, Volume 3, Issue 2, <em>The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The lonely woman sits by the window,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Fondly observing the world outside,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A world that has turned away from her,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Since the day her parents died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The fancy home filled with fine things,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">She has longed for since her youth,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Is cold comfort for all that she has lost<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Because you cannot buy the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cThey say that I do not cry,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">They say I have never grieved\u201d,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">She sighs and wipes at her tears,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe whole world has been deceived.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cAbby was a good for nothing old thing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Father was tight fisted and proud,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">I decided when he gave her the half house,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Things\u00a0such as this should not be allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cEverything I have ever done, you see,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Every dollar that has\u00a0ever been spent,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Has been\u00a0all\u00a0for nothing, in the end,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Oh, how could I not lament?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lizzie Borden poem by Melissa Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}