{"id":161,"date":"2021-04-01T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=161"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:44:09","slug":"golden-of-the-selkirks","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/golden-of-the-selkirks\/","title":{"raw":"Golden\u2014Of the Selkirks","rendered":"Golden\u2014Of the Selkirks"},"content":{"raw":"A trail upwinds from Golden;\r\nIt leads to a land God only knows,\r\nTo the land of eternal frozen snows,\r\nThat trail unknown and olden.\r\n\r\nAnd they tell a tale that is strange and wild\u2014\r\nOf a lovely and lonely mountain child\r\nThat went up the trail from Golden.\r\n\r\nA child in the sweet of her womanhood,\r\nBeautiful, tender, grave and good\r\nAs the saints in time long olden.\r\n\r\nAnd the days count not, nor the weeks avail;\r\nFor the child that went up the mountain trail\r\nCame never again to Golden.\r\n\r\nAnd the watchers wept in the midnight gloom,\r\nWhere the canyons yawn and the Selkirks loom,\r\nFor the love that they knew of olden.\r\n\r\nAnd April dawned, with its suns aflame,\r\nAnd the eagles wheeled and the vultures came\r\nAnd poised o\u2019er the town of Golden.\r\n\r\nGod of the white eternal peaks,\r\nGuard the dead while the vulture seeks!\u2014\r\nGod of the days so olden.\r\n\r\nFor only God in His greatness knows\r\nWhere the mountain holly above her grows,\r\nOn the trail that leads from Golden.","rendered":"<p>A trail upwinds from Golden;<br \/>\nIt leads to a land God only knows,<br \/>\nTo the land of eternal frozen snows,<br \/>\nThat trail unknown and olden.<\/p>\n<p>And they tell a tale that is strange and wild\u2014<br \/>\nOf a lovely and lonely mountain child<br \/>\nThat went up the trail from Golden.<\/p>\n<p>A child in the sweet of her womanhood,<br \/>\nBeautiful, tender, grave and good<br \/>\nAs the saints in time long olden.<\/p>\n<p>And the days count not, nor the weeks avail;<br \/>\nFor the child that went up the mountain trail<br \/>\nCame never again to Golden.<\/p>\n<p>And the watchers wept in the midnight gloom,<br \/>\nWhere the canyons yawn and the Selkirks loom,<br \/>\nFor the love that they knew of olden.<\/p>\n<p>And April dawned, with its suns aflame,<br \/>\nAnd the eagles wheeled and the vultures came<br \/>\nAnd poised o\u2019er the town of Golden.<\/p>\n<p>God of the white eternal peaks,<br \/>\nGuard the dead while the vulture seeks!\u2014<br \/>\nGod of the days so olden.<\/p>\n<p>For only God in His greatness knows<br \/>\nWhere the mountain holly above her grows,<br \/>\nOn the trail that leads from Golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-161","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\/161","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\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"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\/161\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}