{"id":486,"date":"2021-06-22T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=486"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:46:50","slug":"one-year-after","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/one-year-after\/","title":{"raw":"One Year After","rendered":"One Year After"},"content":{"raw":"I\r\n\r\nNot once in all our days of poignant love,\r\nDid I a single instant give to thee\r\nMy undivided being wholly free.\r\nNot all thy potent passion could remove\r\nThe barrier that loomed between to prove\r\nThe full supreme surrendering of me.\r\nOh, I was beaten, helpless utterly\r\nAgainst the shadow-fact with which I strove.\r\nFor when a cruel power forced me to face\r\nThe truth which poisoned our illicit wine,\r\nThat even I was faithless to my race\r\nBleeding beneath the iron hand of thine,\r\nOur union seemed a monstrous thing and base!\r\nI was an outcast from thy world and mine.\r\n\r\nII\r\n\r\nAdventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,\r\nI shun all signs of anchorage, because\r\nThe zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.\r\nNew gales of tropic fury round my head\r\nBreak lashing me through hours of soulful dread;\r\nBut when the terror thins and, spent, withdraws,\r\nLeaving me wondering awhile, I pause\u2014\r\nBut soon again the risky ways I tread!\r\nNo rigid road for me, no peace, no rest,\r\nWhile molten elements run through my blood;\r\nAnd beauty-burning bodies manifest\r\nTheir warm, heart-melting motions to be wooed;\r\nAnd passion boldly rising in my breast,\r\nLike rivers of the Spring, lets loose its flood.","rendered":"<p>I<\/p>\n<p>Not once in all our days of poignant love,<br \/>\nDid I a single instant give to thee<br \/>\nMy undivided being wholly free.<br \/>\nNot all thy potent passion could remove<br \/>\nThe barrier that loomed between to prove<br \/>\nThe full supreme surrendering of me.<br \/>\nOh, I was beaten, helpless utterly<br \/>\nAgainst the shadow-fact with which I strove.<br \/>\nFor when a cruel power forced me to face<br \/>\nThe truth which poisoned our illicit wine,<br \/>\nThat even I was faithless to my race<br \/>\nBleeding beneath the iron hand of thine,<br \/>\nOur union seemed a monstrous thing and base!<br \/>\nI was an outcast from thy world and mine.<\/p>\n<p>II<\/p>\n<p>Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,<br \/>\nI shun all signs of anchorage, because<br \/>\nThe zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.<br \/>\nNew gales of tropic fury round my head<br \/>\nBreak lashing me through hours of soulful dread;<br \/>\nBut when the terror thins and, spent, withdraws,<br \/>\nLeaving me wondering awhile, I pause\u2014<br \/>\nBut soon again the risky ways I tread!<br \/>\nNo rigid road for me, no peace, no rest,<br \/>\nWhile molten elements run through my blood;<br \/>\nAnd beauty-burning bodies manifest<br \/>\nTheir warm, heart-melting motions to be wooed;<br \/>\nAnd passion boldly rising in my breast,<br \/>\nLike rivers of the Spring, lets loose its 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