{"id":21,"date":"2008-01-16T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-01-16T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T21:18:56","slug":"a-pioneer%e2%80%99s-home-longings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"A Pioneer\u2019s Home-Longings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hae a good life in this land.<br \/>\n\u00a0 There\u2019s flame on the hearth,<br \/>\n\u00a0 An\u2019 meat in the pan,<br \/>\n\u00a0 A roof o\u2019erhead<br \/>\n\u00a0 And bairns tae love.<\/p>\n<p>Yet &#8211;<br \/>\n\u00a0 My heart\u2019s awa\u2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 Tae the Highlands awa\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I hae land for the tilling,<br \/>\n\u00a0 An\u2019 cattle in the byre<br \/>\n\u00a0 I hae wood for my fire,<br \/>\n\u00a0 And clan-folk near.<\/p>\n<p>Yet &#8211;<br \/>\n\u00a0 My heart\u2019s awa\u2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 Tae the Highlands awa\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There are deer on the meadow.<br \/>\n\u00a0 An\u2019 bear in the hills.<br \/>\n\u00a0 There are sheep in the pasture,<br \/>\n\u00a0 And wheat in the fields.<\/p>\n<p>Yet &#8211;<br \/>\n\u00a0 My heart\u2019s awa\u2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 Tae the Highlands awa\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I hae not the heather on far reaching hills.<br \/>\n\u00a0 I hear not the pipes in the glen.<br \/>\n\u00a0 I see not fast waters flow from<br \/>\n\u00a0 highlands to loch.<br \/>\n\u00a0 I feel not the fire in the auld hame ingle.<\/p>\n<p>Aye &#8211;<br \/>\n\u00a0 My heart\u2019s awa\u2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 Tae the Highlands awa\u2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 And e\u2019er it shall be<br \/>\n\u00a0 This new, wild land called Canada<br \/>\n\u00a0 will ne\u2019er capture me.<\/p>\n<p>(C) Pat Mestern 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hae a good life in this land. \u00a0 There\u2019s flame on the hearth, \u00a0 An\u2019 meat in the pan, \u00a0 A roof o\u2019erhead \u00a0 And bairns tae love. Yet &#8211; \u00a0 My heart\u2019s awa\u2019 \u00a0 Tae the Highlands awa\u2019 I hae land for the tilling, \u00a0 An\u2019 cattle in the byre \u00a0 I hae [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patmestern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}