{"id":120,"date":"2021-04-01T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&p=120"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:31:15","slug":"penseroso","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/penseroso\/","title":{"raw":"Penseroso","rendered":"Penseroso"},"content":{"raw":"Soulless is all humanity to me\r\nTo-night. My keenest longing is to be\r\nAlone, alone with God\u2019s grey earth that seems\r\nPulse of my pulse and consort of my dreams.\r\n\r\nTo-night my soul desires no fellowship,\r\nOr fellow-being; crave I but to slip\r\nThro\u2019 space on space, till flesh no more can bind,\r\nAnd I may quit for aye my fellow kind.\r\n\r\nLet me but feel athwart my cheek the lash\r\nOf whipping wind, but hear the torrent dash\r\nAdown the mountain steep, \u2019twere more my choice\r\nThan touch of human hand, than human voice.\r\n\r\nLet me but wander on the shore night-stilled,\r\nDrinking its darkness till my soul is filled;\r\nThe breathing of the salt sea on my hair,\r\nMy outstretched hands but grasping empty air.\r\n\r\nLet me but feel the pulse of Nature\u2019s soul\r\nAthrob on mine, let seas and thunders roll\r\nO\u2019er night and me; sands whirl; winds, waters beat;\r\nFor God\u2019s grey earth has no cheap counterfeit.","rendered":"

Soulless is all humanity to me
\nTo-night. My keenest longing is to be
\nAlone, alone with God\u2019s grey earth that seems
\nPulse of my pulse and consort of my dreams.<\/p>\n

To-night my soul desires no fellowship,
\nOr fellow-being; crave I but to slip
\nThro\u2019 space on space, till flesh no more can bind,
\nAnd I may quit for aye my fellow kind.<\/p>\n

Let me but feel athwart my cheek the lash
\nOf whipping wind, but hear the torrent dash
\nAdown the mountain steep, \u2019twere more my choice
\nThan touch of human hand, than human voice.<\/p>\n

Let me but wander on the shore night-stilled,
\nDrinking its darkness till my soul is filled;
\nThe breathing of the salt sea on my hair,
\nMy outstretched hands but grasping empty air.<\/p>\n

Let me but feel the pulse of Nature\u2019s soul
\nAthrob on mine, let seas and thunders roll
\nO\u2019er night and me; sands whirl; winds, waters beat;
\nFor God\u2019s grey earth has no cheap counterfeit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":29,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-120","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}