{"id":232,"date":"2012-04-16T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/?p=232"},"modified":"2012-07-02T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:14:09","slug":"david-macbeth-moir-1798-1851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/david-macbeth-moir-1798-1851\/","title":{"rendered":"David MacBeth Moir (1798-1851)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>1852 (posthumous) \u2018The Old Seaport (Culross, Perthshire)\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Poets of the Victorian period had little doubt as to Spen&#8217;s heroism. They were the first poets to draw on this aspect of the ballad. In, &#8216;The Old Seaport&#8217;, David Moir, a Scottish poet, essayist, and doctor, places Spens on the level of Sir Aubrey Barton, the Scottish High Admiral and privateer:<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/xtf.lib.virginia.edu\/xtf\/view?docId=chadwyck_ep\/uvaGenText\/tei\/chep_3.0753.xml;chunk.id=d142;toc.depth=1;toc.id=d141;brand=default;query=seaport#1\">University of Virginia Library<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Zl4JAAAAQAAJ\">GoogleBooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Excerpt]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It spake of swart grey-headed men,<br \/>\nNow dust within their graves,<br \/>\nWho sailed with Barton or with Spens,<br \/>\nTo breast the trampling waves;<br \/>\nAnd how, in shallops picturesque,<br \/>\nUnawed they drifted forth,<br \/>\nDirected by the one bright star,<br \/>\nThat points the stormy North.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1852 (posthumous) \u2018The Old Seaport (Culross, Perthshire)\u2019 Poets of the Victorian period had little doubt as to Spen&#8217;s heroism. They were the first poets to draw on this aspect of the ballad. In, &#8216;The Old Seaport&#8217;, David Moir, a Scottish &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/afterlife\/david-macbeth-moir-1798-1851\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sirpatrickspens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}