{"id":292,"date":"2021-06-18T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=292"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:11:56","slug":"flowers-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/flowers-of-passion\/","title":{"raw":"Flowers of Passion","rendered":"Flowers of Passion"},"content":{"raw":"The dancers have departed, dear,\r\nAnd the last song has been sung\u2014;\r\nThe red-stained glasses mock my gaze\r\nAnd the fiddle lies unstrung.\r\nAnd I'm alone, alone once more,\r\nSave for your sweet brown face\r\nThat comes reproachfully to me\r\nIn this unholy place.\r\nI've kissed a thousand flowers, my own,\r\nGone drunk with their perfume;\r\nBut found out, when the madness passed,\r\nYou were the one pure bloom.\r\nI've come to realise at last\r\nHow awful it may be\r\nTo cut adrift from sacred ties\r\nAnd be completely free.\r\nBut life grows many flowers, my love,\r\nWithin its garden wall,\r\nAnd passions are the strangest\r\nAnd the deadliest of all.","rendered":"<p>The dancers have departed, dear,<br \/>\nAnd the last song has been sung\u2014;<br \/>\nThe red-stained glasses mock my gaze<br \/>\nAnd the fiddle lies unstrung.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m alone, alone once more,<br \/>\nSave for your sweet brown face<br \/>\nThat comes reproachfully to me<br \/>\nIn this unholy place.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve kissed a thousand flowers, my own,<br \/>\nGone drunk with their perfume;<br \/>\nBut found out, when the madness passed,<br \/>\nYou were the one pure bloom.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come to realise at last<br \/>\nHow awful it may be<br \/>\nTo cut adrift from sacred ties<br \/>\nAnd be completely free.<br \/>\nBut life grows many flowers, my love,<br \/>\nWithin its garden wall,<br \/>\nAnd passions are the strangest<br \/>\nAnd the deadliest of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-292","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":279,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/279"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}