{"id":315,"date":"2023-08-30T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:44:02","slug":"%e0%b6%9c%e0%b7%9c%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%92%e0%b6%ba%e0%b7%9d-%e0%b6%b8%e0%b7%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Farmer, behold my little son (Goiyo me)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Farmer, behold my little son,<br>One day he will grow to eat rice from the earth.<br>O God, look\u2014my child sleeps in peace,<br>Soft as the evening breeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Son, do you dream of being cradled<br>In the lap of gentle <em>Malokudevi<\/em>?<br>Do you see the Bodhi leaves swaying in the night wind,<br>Glistening softly under the silver moonlight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you dream of the Blessed One,<br>Preaching by the river in Sri Lanka,<br>From a humble ferry gliding on the waters?<br>Ah, that must be why your lips curve in such sweet smiles,<br>In the tender glow of your dreams, my son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"goiyo me- \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0ddc\u0dba\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0ddd \u0daf\u0dbb\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc5\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbd\u0dd2 \u0d9c\u0dd3\u0dad\u0dba\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJDiWN-nXms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmer, behold my little son,One day he will grow to eat rice from the earth.O God, look\u2014my child sleeps in peace,Soft as the evening breeze. Son, do you dream of being cradledIn the lap of gentle Malokudevi?Do you see the Bodhi leaves swaying in the night wind,Glistening softly under the silver moonlight? Do you dream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,53,21,27],"tags":[6,44,18,65],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folksongs","category-historysong","category-lullabysongs","category-mahasendehena","category-ravanabrotherssongs","tag-dhammika-hettiarachchi","tag-pasindu-chamara","tag-pradeep-muthukudarachchi","tag-shirani-wickramasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlyrics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}