{"id":128,"date":"2021-04-01T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=128"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:31:43","slug":"the-happy-hunting-grounds","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/the-happy-hunting-grounds\/","title":{"raw":"The Happy Hunting Grounds","rendered":"The Happy Hunting Grounds"},"content":{"raw":"Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll,\r\nWorld of the bison\u2019s freedom, home of the Indian\u2019s soul.\r\nRoll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed,\r\nYour plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.\r\n\r\nFarther than vision ranges, farther than eagles fly,\r\nStretches the land of beauty, arches the perfect sky,\r\nHemm\u2019d through the purple mists afar\r\nBy peaks that gleam like star on star.\r\n\r\nFringing the prairie billows, fretting horizon\u2019s line,\r\nDarkly green are slumb\u2019ring wildernesses of pine,\r\nSleeping until the zephyrs throng\r\nTo kiss their silence into song.\r\n\r\nWhispers freighted with odour swinging into the air,\r\nRusset needles as censers swing to an altar, where\r\nThe angels\u2019 songs are less divine\r\nThan duo sung twixt breeze and pine.\r\n\r\nLaughing into the forest, dimples a mountain stream,\r\nPure as the airs above it, soft as a summer dream,\r\nO! Lethean spring thou\u2019rt only found\r\nWithin this ideal hunting ground.\r\n\r\nSurely the great Hereafter cannot be more than this,\r\nSurely we\u2019ll see that country after Time\u2019s farewell kiss.\r\nWho would his lovely faith condole?\r\nWho envies not the Red-skin\u2019s soul,\r\n\r\nSailing into the cloud land, sailing into the sun,\r\nInto the crimson portals ajar when life is done?\r\nO! dear dead race, my spirit too\r\nWould fain sail westward unto you.","rendered":"<p>Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll,<br \/>\nWorld of the bison\u2019s freedom, home of the Indian\u2019s soul.<br \/>\nRoll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed,<br \/>\nYour plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.<\/p>\n<p>Farther than vision ranges, farther than eagles fly,<br \/>\nStretches the land of beauty, arches the perfect sky,<br \/>\nHemm\u2019d through the purple mists afar<br \/>\nBy peaks that gleam like star on star.<\/p>\n<p>Fringing the prairie billows, fretting horizon\u2019s line,<br \/>\nDarkly green are slumb\u2019ring wildernesses of pine,<br \/>\nSleeping until the zephyrs throng<br \/>\nTo kiss their silence into song.<\/p>\n<p>Whispers freighted with odour swinging into the air,<br \/>\nRusset needles as censers swing to an altar, where<br \/>\nThe angels\u2019 songs are less divine<br \/>\nThan duo sung twixt breeze and pine.<\/p>\n<p>Laughing into the forest, dimples a mountain stream,<br \/>\nPure as the airs above it, soft as a summer dream,<br \/>\nO! Lethean spring thou\u2019rt only found<br \/>\nWithin this ideal hunting ground.<\/p>\n<p>Surely the great Hereafter cannot be more than this,<br \/>\nSurely we\u2019ll see that country after Time\u2019s farewell kiss.<br \/>\nWho would his lovely faith condole?<br \/>\nWho envies not the Red-skin\u2019s soul,<\/p>\n<p>Sailing into the cloud land, sailing into the sun,<br \/>\nInto the crimson portals ajar when life is done?<br \/>\nO! dear dead race, my spirit too<br \/>\nWould fain sail westward unto you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":33,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-128","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\/128","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\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"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\/128\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}