{"id":2758,"date":"1971-12-31T12:28:00","date_gmt":"1971-12-31T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:51:39","slug":"goe-and-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Goe and catch!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Goe, and catch a falling starre &#8211; John Donne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goe, and catch a falling starre,<br>Get with child a mandrake&#8217;s root,<br>Tell me, where all past years are,<br>Or who cleft the Divel&#8217;s foot,<br>Teach me to heare<br>Mermaids singing<br>Or to keep envies stinging,<br>And finde<br>What winde<br>Serves to&#8217;advance an honest mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/Goeandcatch2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 1971<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>If thou beest borne to strange sights,<br>Things invisible to see,<br>Ride ten thousand daies and nights,<br>Till age snow white haires on thee,<br>Thou, when thou retorn&#8217;st, wilt tell mee<br>All strange wonders, that befell thee,<br>And sweare<br>No where<br>Lives a woman true and fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>If thou findst one, let mee know;<br>Such a pilgrimage were sweet;<br>Yet doe not, I would not goe,<br>Though at next door we might meet,<br>Though shee were true, when you met her,<br>And last, till you write your letter,<br>Yet shee<br>Will bee<br>False, ere I come, to &#8211; two or three.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Goe,_and_catch_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/moffsta.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NoteWorthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goe, and catch a falling starre &#8211; John Donne Goe, and catch a falling starre,Get with child a mandrake&#8217;s root,Tell me, where all past years are,Or who cleft the Divel&#8217;s foot,Teach me to heareMermaids singingOr to keep envies stinging,And findeWhat windeServes to&#8217;advance an honest mind. If thou beest borne to strange sights,Things invisible to see,Ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}