{"id":20115,"date":"2011-09-10T21:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:52:16","slug":"manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: In an Age of Fops and Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an Age of Fops and Toys<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By: Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an age of fops and toys,<br \/>\nWanting wisdom, void of right,<br \/>\nWho shall nerve heroic boys<br \/>\nTo hazard all in Freedom&#8217;s fight,\u2014<br \/>\nBreak sharply off their jolly games,<br \/>\nForsake their comrades gay<br \/>\nAnd quit proud homes and youthful dames<br \/>\nFor famine, toil and fray?<br \/>\nYet on the nimble air benign<br \/>\nSpeed nimbler messages,<br \/>\nThat waft the breath of grace divine<br \/>\nTo hearts in sloth and ease.<br \/>\nSo nigh is grandeur to our dust,<br \/>\nSo near is God to man,<br \/>\nWhen Duty whispers low, <em>Thou must,<\/em><br \/>\nThe youth replies, <em>I can.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Age of Fops and Toys By: Ralph Waldo Emerson In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom&#8217;s fight,\u2014 Break sharply off their jolly games, Forsake their comrades gay And quit proud homes and youthful dames For famine, toil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"class_list":["post-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-manly-lessons","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In An Age of Fops and Toys by Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom&#039;s fight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manvotional: In an Age of Fops and Toys | The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom&#039;s fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/artofmanliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-11T02:36:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-03T14:52:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brett &amp; 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