{"id":35802,"date":"2026-10-18T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35802"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:38:03","slug":"allusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/allusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Allusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first line of &#8220;William of Thierry&#8221; by David Lyle Jeffrey which <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\">appears<\/a> in the November 2026 issue of <em>First Things<\/em> is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I cannot help but think of Frost&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetry.com\/poem\/30948\/two-tramps-in-mud-time\" target=\"_new\">Two Tramps in Mud Time&#8221;<\/a> which ends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only where love and need are one,<br \/>\nAnd the work is play for mortal stakes,<br \/>\nIs the deed ever really done<br \/>\nFor Heaven and the future&#8217;s sakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I looked to see if the first line came from a quote by the Cistercian monk about whom Jeffrey writes to which Frost also might be alluding, but apparently not.  Perhaps Jeffrey is alluding to the Frost obliquely instead.<\/p>\n<p>I know of the latter because of the Robert B. Parker book <em>Mortal Stakes<\/em>.  I subscribe to <em>First Things<\/em> because Elizabeth Scalia, the Anchoress, used to write for them; however, she has not for a long time, and she&#8217;s not even <a href=\"https:\/\/theanchoress.com\/\" target=\"_new\">blogging much these days<\/a>.  I hope she is well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first line of &#8220;William of Thierry&#8221; by David Lyle Jeffrey which appears in the November 2026 issue of First Things is: Where love and understanding join, hearts are tranquil, And I cannot help but think of Frost&#8217;s Two Tramps in Mud Time&#8221; which ends: Only where love and need are one, And the work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35803,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35802\/revisions\/35803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}