West wind, blow from your prairie nest,
\nBlow from the mountains, blow from the west.
\nThe sail is idle, the sailor too;
\nO! wind of the west, we wait for you.
\nBlow, blow!<\/p>\n
I have wooed you so,
\nBut never a favour you bestow.
\nYou rock your cradle the hills between,
\nBut scorn to notice my white lateen.<\/p>\n
I stow the sail, unship the mast:
\nI wooed you long but my wooing\u2019s past;
\nMy paddle will lull you into rest.
\nO! drowsy wind of the drowsy west,
\nSleep, sleep,
\nBy your mountain steep,
\nOr down where the prairie grasses sweep!
\nNow fold in slumber your laggard wings,
\nFor soft is the song my paddle sings.<\/p>\n
August is laughing across the sky,
\nLaughing while paddle, canoe and I,
\nDrift, drift,
\nWhere the hills uplift
\nOn either side of the current swift.<\/p>\n
The river rolls in its rocky bed;
\nMy paddle is plying its way ahead;
\nDip, dip,
\nWhile the waters flip
\nIn foam as over their breast we slip.<\/p>\n
And oh, the river runs swifter now;
\nThe eddies circle about my bow.
\nSwirl, swirl!
\nHow the ripples curl
\nIn many a dangerous pool awhirl!<\/p>\n
And forward far the rapids roar,
\nFretting their margin for evermore.
\nDash, dash,
\nWith a mighty crash,
\nThey seethe, and boil, and bound, and splash.<\/p>\n
Be strong, O paddle! be brave, canoe!
\nThe reckless waves you must plunge into.
\nReel, reel.
\nOn your trembling keel,
\nBut never a fear my craft will feel.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve raced the rapid, we\u2019re far ahead!
\nThe river slips through its silent bed.
\nSway, sway,
\nAs the bubbles spray
\nAnd fall in tinkling tunes away.<\/p>\n
And up on the hills against the sky,
\nA fir tree rocking its lullaby,
\nSwings, swings,
\nIts emerald wings,
\nSwelling the song that my paddle sings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-71","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\/71","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\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"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\/71\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}