{"id":94,"date":"2021-03-30T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=94"},"modified":"2022-02-14T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:00:09","slug":"shadow-river","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/shadow-river\/","title":{"raw":"Shadow River","rendered":"Shadow River"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Muskoka<\/h2>\r\nA stream of tender gladness,\r\nOf filmy sun, and opal tinted skies;\r\nOf warm midsummer air that lightly lies\r\nIn mystic rings,\r\nWhere softly swings\r\nThe music of a thousand wings\r\nThat almost tones to sadness.\r\n\r\nMidway \u2018twixt earth and heaven,\r\nA bubble in the pearly air, I seem\r\nTo float upon the sapphire floor, a dream\r\nOf clouds of snow,\r\nAbove, below,\r\nDrift with my drifting, dim and slow,\r\nAs twilight drifts to even.\r\n\r\nThe little fern-leaf, bending\r\nUpon the brink, its green reflection greets,\r\nAnd kisses soft the shadow that it meets\r\nWith touch so fine,\r\nThe border line\r\nThe keenest vision can\u2019t define;\r\nSo perfect is the blending.\r\n\r\nThe far, fir trees that cover\r\nThe brownish hills with needles green and gold,\r\nThe arching elms o\u2019erhead, vinegrown and old,\r\nRepictured are\r\nBeneath me far,\r\nWhere not a ripple moves to mar\r\nShades underneath, or over.\r\n\r\nMine is the undertone;\r\nThe beauty, strength, and power of the land\r\nWill never stir or bend at my command;\r\nBut all the shade\r\nIs marred or made,\r\nIf I but dip my paddle blade;\r\nAnd it is mine alone.\r\n\r\nO! pathless world of seeming!\r\nO! pathless life of mine whose deep ideal\r\nIs more my own than ever was the real.\r\nFor others Fame\r\nAnd Love\u2019s red flame,\r\nAnd yellow gold: I only claim\r\nThe shadows and the dreaming.","rendered":"<h2>Muskoka<\/h2>\n<p>A stream of tender gladness,<br \/>\nOf filmy sun, and opal tinted skies;<br \/>\nOf warm midsummer air that lightly lies<br \/>\nIn mystic rings,<br \/>\nWhere softly swings<br \/>\nThe music of a thousand wings<br \/>\nThat almost tones to sadness.<\/p>\n<p>Midway \u2018twixt earth and heaven,<br \/>\nA bubble in the pearly air, I seem<br \/>\nTo float upon the sapphire floor, a dream<br \/>\nOf clouds of snow,<br \/>\nAbove, below,<br \/>\nDrift with my drifting, dim and slow,<br \/>\nAs twilight drifts to even.<\/p>\n<p>The little fern-leaf, bending<br \/>\nUpon the brink, its green reflection greets,<br \/>\nAnd kisses soft the shadow that it meets<br \/>\nWith touch so fine,<br \/>\nThe border line<br \/>\nThe keenest vision can\u2019t define;<br \/>\nSo perfect is the blending.<\/p>\n<p>The far, fir trees that cover<br \/>\nThe brownish hills with needles green and gold,<br \/>\nThe arching elms o\u2019erhead, vinegrown and old,<br \/>\nRepictured are<br \/>\nBeneath me far,<br \/>\nWhere not a ripple moves to mar<br \/>\nShades underneath, or over.<\/p>\n<p>Mine is the undertone;<br \/>\nThe beauty, strength, and power of the land<br \/>\nWill never stir or bend at my command;<br \/>\nBut all the shade<br \/>\nIs marred or made,<br \/>\nIf I but dip my paddle blade;<br \/>\nAnd it is mine alone.<\/p>\n<p>O! pathless world of seeming!<br \/>\nO! pathless life of mine whose deep ideal<br \/>\nIs more my own than ever was the real.<br \/>\nFor others Fame<br \/>\nAnd Love\u2019s red flame,<br \/>\nAnd yellow gold: I only claim<br \/>\nThe shadows and the dreaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":19,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-94","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\/94","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\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/94\/revisions\/337"}],"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\/94\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}