{"id":159,"date":"2021-04-01T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&p=159"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:09:17","slug":"prairie-greyhounds","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/prairie-greyhounds\/","title":{"raw":"Prairie Greyhounds","rendered":"Prairie Greyhounds"},"content":{"raw":"

C.P.R. \u201cNo. 1,\u201d Westbound<\/h2>\r\nI swing to the sunset land\u2014\r\nThe world of prairie, the world of plain,\r\nThe world of promise and hope and gain,\r\nThe world of gold, and the world of grain,\r\nAnd the world of the willing hand.\r\n\r\nI carry the brave and bold\u2014\r\nThe one who works for the nation\u2019s bread,\r\nThe one whose past is a thing that\u2019s dead,\r\nThe one who battles and beats ahead,\r\nAnd the one who goes for gold.\r\n\r\nI swing to the \u201cLand to Be,\u201d\r\nI am the power that laid its floors,\r\nI am the guide to its western stores,\r\nI am the key to its golden doors,\r\nThat open alone to me.\r\n

C.P.R. \u201cNo. 2,\u201d Eastbound<\/h2>\r\nI swing to the land of morn;\r\nThe grey old east with its grey old seas,\r\nThe land of leisure, the land of ease,\r\nThe land of flowers and fruits and trees,\r\nAnd the place where we were born.\r\n\r\nFreighted with wealth I come;\r\nFor he who many a moon has spent\r\nFar out west on adventure bent,\r\nWith well-worn pick and a folded tent,\r\nIs bringing his bullion home.\r\n\r\nI never will be renowned,\r\nAs my twin that swings to the western marts,\r\nFor I am she of the humbler parts,\r\nBut I am the joy of the waiting hearts;\r\nFor I am the Homeward-bound.","rendered":"

C.P.R. \u201cNo. 1,\u201d Westbound<\/h2>\n

I swing to the sunset land\u2014
\nThe world of prairie, the world of plain,
\nThe world of promise and hope and gain,
\nThe world of gold, and the world of grain,
\nAnd the world of the willing hand.<\/p>\n

I carry the brave and bold\u2014
\nThe one who works for the nation\u2019s bread,
\nThe one whose past is a thing that\u2019s dead,
\nThe one who battles and beats ahead,
\nAnd the one who goes for gold.<\/p>\n

I swing to the \u201cLand to Be,\u201d
\nI am the power that laid its floors,
\nI am the guide to its western stores,
\nI am the key to its golden doors,
\nThat open alone to me.<\/p>\n

C.P.R. \u201cNo. 2,\u201d Eastbound<\/h2>\n

I swing to the land of morn;
\nThe grey old east with its grey old seas,
\nThe land of leisure, the land of ease,
\nThe land of flowers and fruits and trees,
\nAnd the place where we were born.<\/p>\n

Freighted with wealth I come;
\nFor he who many a moon has spent
\nFar out west on adventure bent,
\nWith well-worn pick and a folded tent,
\nIs bringing his bullion home.<\/p>\n

I never will be renowned,
\nAs my twin that swings to the western marts,
\nFor I am she of the humbler parts,
\nBut I am the joy of the waiting hearts;
\nFor I am the Homeward-bound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-159","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/159","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\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/159\/revisions\/345"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/136"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/159\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}