{"id":79,"date":"2021-03-30T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=79"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:08:35","slug":"easter","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/easter\/","title":{"raw":"Easter","rendered":"Easter"},"content":{"raw":"April 1, 1888\r\n\r\nLent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading\r\nIn her reluctant hands.\r\nHer beauty heightens, fairest in its fading,\r\nAs pensively she stands\r\nAwaiting Easter\u2019s benediction falling,\r\nLike silver stars at night,\r\nBefore she can obey the summons calling\r\nHer to her upward flight,\r\nAwaiting Easter\u2019s wings that she must borrow\r\nEre she can hope to fly\u2014\r\nThose glorious wings that we shall see to-morrow\r\nAgainst the far, blue sky.\r\nHas not the purple of her vesture\u2019s lining\r\nBrought calm and rest to all?\r\nHas her dark robe had naught of golden shining\r\nBeen naught but pleasure\u2019s pall?\r\nWho knows? Perhaps when to the world returning\r\nIn youth\u2019s light joyousness,\r\nWe\u2019ll wear some rarer jewels we found burning\r\nIn Lent\u2019s black-bordered dress.\r\nSo hand in hand with fitful March she lingers\r\nTo beg the crowning grace\r\nOf lifting with her pure and holy fingers\r\nThe veil from April\u2019s face.\r\nSweet, rosy April\u2014laughing, sighing, waiting\r\nUntil the gateway swings,\r\nAnd she and Lent can kiss between the grating\r\nOf Easter\u2019s tissue wings.\r\nToo brief the bliss\u2014the parting comes with sorrow.\r\nGood-bye dear Lent, good-bye!\r\nWe\u2019ll watch your fading wings outlined to-morrow\r\nAgainst the far blue sky.","rendered":"<p>April 1, 1888<\/p>\n<p>Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading<br \/>\nIn her reluctant hands.<br \/>\nHer beauty heightens, fairest in its fading,<br \/>\nAs pensively she stands<br \/>\nAwaiting Easter\u2019s benediction falling,<br \/>\nLike silver stars at night,<br \/>\nBefore she can obey the summons calling<br \/>\nHer to her upward flight,<br \/>\nAwaiting Easter\u2019s wings that she must borrow<br \/>\nEre she can hope to fly\u2014<br \/>\nThose glorious wings that we shall see to-morrow<br \/>\nAgainst the far, blue sky.<br \/>\nHas not the purple of her vesture\u2019s lining<br \/>\nBrought calm and rest to all?<br \/>\nHas her dark robe had naught of golden shining<br \/>\nBeen naught but pleasure\u2019s pall?<br \/>\nWho knows? Perhaps when to the world returning<br \/>\nIn youth\u2019s light joyousness,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll wear some rarer jewels we found burning<br \/>\nIn Lent\u2019s black-bordered dress.<br \/>\nSo hand in hand with fitful March she lingers<br \/>\nTo beg the crowning grace<br \/>\nOf lifting with her pure and holy fingers<br \/>\nThe veil from April\u2019s face.<br \/>\nSweet, rosy April\u2014laughing, sighing, waiting<br \/>\nUntil the gateway swings,<br \/>\nAnd she and Lent can kiss between the grating<br \/>\nOf Easter\u2019s tissue wings.<br \/>\nToo brief the bliss\u2014the parting comes with sorrow.<br \/>\nGood-bye dear Lent, good-bye!<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll watch your fading wings outlined to-morrow<br \/>\nAgainst the far blue sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":13,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-79","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\/79","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\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/79\/revisions\/305"}],"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\/79\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}