{"id":174,"date":"2021-04-01T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=174"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:11:24","slug":"through-time-and-better-distance","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/through-time-and-better-distance\/","title":{"raw":"\"Through Time and Better Distance\"","rendered":"&#8220;Through Time and Better Distance&#8221;"},"content":{"raw":"[footnote]For this title the author is indebted to Mr. Charles G. D.\u00a0Roberts. It occurs in his sonnet, \u201cRain.\u201d[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nUnknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.\r\nThe cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine\r\nMay freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,\r\nEre you will ever know, O! Heart of mine,\r\nThat I have sought, reflected in the blue\r\nOf these sea depths, some shadow of your eyes;\r\nHave hoped the laughing waves would sing of you,\r\nBut this is all my starving sight descries\u2014\r\n<h2>I<\/h2>\r\nFar out at sea a sail\r\nBends to the freshening breeze,\r\nYields to the rising gale\r\nThat sweeps the seas;\r\n<h2>II<\/h2>\r\nYields, as a bird wind-tossed,\r\nTo saltish waves that fling\r\nTheir spray, whose rime and frost\r\nLike crystals cling\r\n<h2>III<\/h2>\r\nTo canvas, mast and spar,\r\nTill, gleaming like a gem,\r\nShe sinks beyond the far\r\nHorizon\u2019s hem.\r\n<h2>IV<\/h2>\r\nLost to my longing sight,\r\nAnd nothing left to me\r\nSave an oncoming night,\u2014\r\nAn empty sea.","rendered":"<p><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"For this title the author is indebted to Mr. Charles G. D.\u00a0Roberts. It occurs in his sonnet, \u201cRain.\u201d\" id=\"return-footnote-174-1\" href=\"#footnote-174-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.<br \/>\nThe cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine<br \/>\nMay freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,<br \/>\nEre you will ever know, O! Heart of mine,<br \/>\nThat I have sought, reflected in the blue<br \/>\nOf these sea depths, some shadow of your eyes;<br \/>\nHave hoped the laughing waves would sing of you,<br \/>\nBut this is all my starving sight descries\u2014<\/p>\n<h2>I<\/h2>\n<p>Far out at sea a sail<br \/>\nBends to the freshening breeze,<br \/>\nYields to the rising gale<br \/>\nThat sweeps the seas;<\/p>\n<h2>II<\/h2>\n<p>Yields, as a bird wind-tossed,<br \/>\nTo saltish waves that fling<br \/>\nTheir spray, whose rime and frost<br \/>\nLike crystals cling<\/p>\n<h2>III<\/h2>\n<p>To canvas, mast and spar,<br \/>\nTill, gleaming like a gem,<br \/>\nShe sinks beyond the far<br \/>\nHorizon\u2019s hem.<\/p>\n<h2>IV<\/h2>\n<p>Lost to my longing sight,<br \/>\nAnd nothing left to me<br \/>\nSave an oncoming night,\u2014<br \/>\nAn empty sea.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-174-1\">For this title the author is indebted to Mr. Charles G. D.\u00a0Roberts. 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