{"id":404,"date":"2021-06-21T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=404"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:24:13","slug":"the-spanish-needle-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/the-spanish-needle-2\/","title":{"raw":"The Spanish Needle","rendered":"The Spanish Needle"},"content":{"raw":"Lovely dainty Spanish needle\r\nWith your yellow flower and white,\r\nDew bedecked and softly sleeping,\r\nDo you think of me to-night?\r\n\r\nShadowed by the spreading mango,\r\nNodding o\u2019er the rippling stream,\r\nTell me, dear plant of my childhood,\r\nDo you of the exile dream?\r\n\r\nDo you see me by the brook\u2019s side\r\nCatching crayfish \u2018neath the stone,\r\nAs you did the day you whispered:\r\nLeave the harmless dears alone?\r\n\r\nDo you see me in the meadow\r\nComing from the woodland spring\r\nWith a bamboo on my shoulder\r\nAnd a pail sling from a string?\r\n\r\nDo you see me all expectant\r\nLying in an orange grove,\r\nWhile the swee-swees sing above me,\r\nWaiting for my elf-eyed love?\r\n\r\nLovely dainty Spanish needle,\r\nSource to me of sweet delight,\r\nIn your far-off sunny southland\r\nDo you dream of me to-night?","rendered":"<p>Lovely dainty Spanish needle<br \/>\nWith your yellow flower and white,<br \/>\nDew bedecked and softly sleeping,<br \/>\nDo you think of me to-night?<\/p>\n<p>Shadowed by the spreading mango,<br \/>\nNodding o\u2019er the rippling stream,<br \/>\nTell me, dear plant of my childhood,<br \/>\nDo you of the exile dream?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see me by the brook\u2019s side<br \/>\nCatching crayfish \u2018neath the stone,<br \/>\nAs you did the day you whispered:<br \/>\nLeave the harmless dears alone?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see me in the meadow<br \/>\nComing from the woodland spring<br \/>\nWith a bamboo on my shoulder<br \/>\nAnd a pail sling from a string?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see me all expectant<br \/>\nLying in an orange grove,<br \/>\nWhile the swee-swees sing above me,<br \/>\nWaiting for my elf-eyed love?<\/p>\n<p>Lovely dainty Spanish needle,<br \/>\nSource to me of sweet delight,<br \/>\nIn your far-off sunny southland<br \/>\nDo you dream of me to-night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":22,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-404","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":346,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/346"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/404\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}