{"id":68,"date":"2021-03-30T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=68"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:07:34","slug":"the-vagabonds","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/the-vagabonds\/","title":{"raw":"The Vagabonds","rendered":"The Vagabonds"},"content":{"raw":"What saw you in your flight to-day,\r\nCrows, awinging your homeward way?\r\n\r\nWent you far in carrion quest,\r\nCrows, that worry the sunless west?\r\n\r\nThieves and villains, you shameless things!\r\nBlack your record as black your wings.\r\n\r\nTell me, birds of the inky hue,\r\nPlunderous rogues\u2014to-day have you\r\n\r\nSeen with mischievous, prying eyes\r\nLands where earlier suns arise?\r\n\r\nSaw you a lazy beck between\r\nTrees that shadow its breast in green,\r\n\r\nTeased by obstinate stones that lie\r\nCrossing the current tauntingly?\r\n\r\nFields abloom on the farther side\r\nWith purpling clover lying wide\u2014\r\n\r\nSaw you there as you circled by,\r\nVale-environed a cottage lie,\r\n\r\nGirt about with emerald bands,\r\nNestling down in its meadow lands?\r\n\r\nSaw you this on your thieving raids?\r\nSpeak\u2014you rascally renegades!\r\n\r\nThieved you also away from me\r\nOlden scenes that I long to see?\r\n\r\nIf, O! crows, you have flown since morn\r\nOver the place where I was born,\r\n\r\nForget will I, how black you were\r\nSince dawn, in feather and character;\r\n\r\nAbsolve will I, your vagrant band\r\nEre you enter your slumberland.","rendered":"<p>What saw you in your flight to-day,<br \/>\nCrows, awinging your homeward way?<\/p>\n<p>Went you far in carrion quest,<br \/>\nCrows, that worry the sunless west?<\/p>\n<p>Thieves and villains, you shameless things!<br \/>\nBlack your record as black your wings.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, birds of the inky hue,<br \/>\nPlunderous rogues\u2014to-day have you<\/p>\n<p>Seen with mischievous, prying eyes<br \/>\nLands where earlier suns arise?<\/p>\n<p>Saw you a lazy beck between<br \/>\nTrees that shadow its breast in green,<\/p>\n<p>Teased by obstinate stones that lie<br \/>\nCrossing the current tauntingly?<\/p>\n<p>Fields abloom on the farther side<br \/>\nWith purpling clover lying wide\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Saw you there as you circled by,<br \/>\nVale-environed a cottage lie,<\/p>\n<p>Girt about with emerald bands,<br \/>\nNestling down in its meadow lands?<\/p>\n<p>Saw you this on your thieving raids?<br \/>\nSpeak\u2014you rascally renegades!<\/p>\n<p>Thieved you also away from me<br \/>\nOlden scenes that I long to see?<\/p>\n<p>If, O! crows, you have flown since morn<br \/>\nOver the place where I was born,<\/p>\n<p>Forget will I, how black you were<br \/>\nSince dawn, in feather and character;<\/p>\n<p>Absolve will I, your vagrant band<br \/>\nEre you enter your slumberland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-68","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\/68","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\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"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\/68\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}