{"id":122,"date":"2021-04-01T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=122"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:31:21","slug":"re-voyage","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/re-voyage\/","title":{"raw":"Re-Voyage","rendered":"Re-Voyage"},"content":{"raw":"What of the days when we two dreamed together?\r\nDays marvellously fair,\r\nAs lightsome as a skyward floating feather\r\nSailing on summer air\u2014\r\nSummer, summer, that came drifting through\r\nFate\u2019s hand to me, to you.\r\n\r\nWhat of the days, my dear? I sometimes wonder\r\nIf you too wish this sky\r\nCould be the blue we sailed so softly under,\r\nIn that sun-kissed July;\r\nSailed in the warm and yellow afternoon,\r\nWith hearts in touch and tune.\r\n\r\nHave you no longing to re-live the dreaming,\r\nAdrift in my canoe?\r\nTo watch my paddle blade all wet and gleaming\r\nCleaving the waters through?\r\nTo lie wind-blown and wave-caressed, until\r\nYour restless pulse grows still?\r\n\r\nDo you not long to listen to the purling\r\nOf foam athwart the keel?\r\nTo hear the nearing rapids softly swirling\r\nAmong their stones, to feel\r\nThe boat\u2019s unsteady tremor as it braves\r\nThe wild and snarling waves?\r\n\r\nWhat need of question, what of your replying?\r\nOh! well I know that you\r\nWould toss the world away to be but lying\r\nAgain in my canoe,\r\nIn listless indolence entranced and lost,\r\nWave-rocked, and passion tossed.\r\n\r\nAh me! my paddle failed me in the steering\r\nAcross love\u2019s shoreless seas;\r\nAll reckless, I had ne\u2019er a thought of fearing\r\nSuch dreary days as these,\r\nWhen through the self-same rapids we dash by,\r\nMy lone canoe and I.","rendered":"<p>What of the days when we two dreamed together?<br \/>\nDays marvellously fair,<br \/>\nAs lightsome as a skyward floating feather<br \/>\nSailing on summer air\u2014<br \/>\nSummer, summer, that came drifting through<br \/>\nFate\u2019s hand to me, to you.<\/p>\n<p>What of the days, my dear? I sometimes wonder<br \/>\nIf you too wish this sky<br \/>\nCould be the blue we sailed so softly under,<br \/>\nIn that sun-kissed July;<br \/>\nSailed in the warm and yellow afternoon,<br \/>\nWith hearts in touch and tune.<\/p>\n<p>Have you no longing to re-live the dreaming,<br \/>\nAdrift in my canoe?<br \/>\nTo watch my paddle blade all wet and gleaming<br \/>\nCleaving the waters through?<br \/>\nTo lie wind-blown and wave-caressed, until<br \/>\nYour restless pulse grows still?<\/p>\n<p>Do you not long to listen to the purling<br \/>\nOf foam athwart the keel?<br \/>\nTo hear the nearing rapids softly swirling<br \/>\nAmong their stones, to feel<br \/>\nThe boat\u2019s unsteady tremor as it braves<br \/>\nThe wild and snarling waves?<\/p>\n<p>What need of question, what of your replying?<br \/>\nOh! well I know that you<br \/>\nWould toss the world away to be but lying<br \/>\nAgain in my canoe,<br \/>\nIn listless indolence entranced and lost,<br \/>\nWave-rocked, and passion tossed.<\/p>\n<p>Ah me! my paddle failed me in the steering<br \/>\nAcross love\u2019s shoreless seas;<br \/>\nAll reckless, I had ne\u2019er a thought of fearing<br \/>\nSuch dreary days as these,<br \/>\nWhen through the self-same rapids we dash by,<br \/>\nMy lone canoe and I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":30,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-122","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\/122","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions\/308"}],"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\/122\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}