{"id":286,"date":"2014-06-18T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=286"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:56:56","slug":"the-haunter","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/the-haunter\/","title":{"raw":"The Haunter","rendered":"The Haunter"},"content":{"raw":"He does not think that I haunt here nightly:\r\nHow shall I let him know\r\nThat whither his fancy sets him wandering\r\nI, too, alertly go?\u2014\r\nHover and hover a few feet from him\r\nJust as I used to do,\r\nBut cannot answer his words addressed me \u2014\r\nOnly listen thereto!\r\n\r\nWhen I could answer he did not say them:\r\nWhen I could let him know\r\nHow I would like to join in his journeys\r\nSeldom he wished to go.\r\nNow that he goes and wants me with him\r\nMore than he used to do,\r\nNever he sees my faithful phantom\r\nThough he speaks thereto.\r\n\r\nYes, I accompany him to places\r\nOnly dreamers know,\r\nWhere the shy hares limp long paces,\r\nWhere the night rooks go;\r\nInto old aisles where the past is all to him,\r\nClose as his shade can do,\r\nAlways lacking the power to call to him,\r\nNear as I reach thereto!\r\n\r\nWhat a good haunter I am, O tell him,\r\nQuickly make him know\r\nIf he but sigh since my loss befell him\r\nStraight to his side I go.\r\nTell him a faithful one is doing\r\nAll that love can do\r\nStill that his path may be worth pursuing,\r\nAnd to bring peace thereto.\r\n\r\n\u2014 1912","rendered":"<p>He does not think that I haunt here nightly:<br \/>\nHow shall I let him know<br \/>\nThat whither his fancy sets him wandering<br \/>\nI, too, alertly go?\u2014<br \/>\nHover and hover a few feet from him<br \/>\nJust as I used to do,<br \/>\nBut cannot answer his words addressed me \u2014<br \/>\nOnly listen thereto!<\/p>\n<p>When I could answer he did not say them:<br \/>\nWhen I could let him know<br \/>\nHow I would like to join in his journeys<br \/>\nSeldom he wished to go.<br \/>\nNow that he goes and wants me with him<br \/>\nMore than he used to do,<br \/>\nNever he sees my faithful phantom<br \/>\nThough he speaks thereto.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I accompany him to places<br \/>\nOnly dreamers know,<br \/>\nWhere the shy hares limp long paces,<br \/>\nWhere the night rooks go;<br \/>\nInto old aisles where the past is all to him,<br \/>\nClose as his shade can do,<br \/>\nAlways lacking the power to call to him,<br \/>\nNear as I reach thereto!<\/p>\n<p>What a good haunter I am, O tell him,<br \/>\nQuickly make him know<br \/>\nIf he but sigh since my loss befell him<br \/>\nStraight to his side I go.<br \/>\nTell him a faithful one is doing<br \/>\nAll that love can do<br \/>\nStill that his path may be worth pursuing,<br \/>\nAnd to bring peace thereto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 1912<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["thomas-hardy"],"pb_section_license":"public-domain"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[53],"license":[78],"class_list":["post-286","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-thomas-hardy","license-public-domain"],"part":265,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/265"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/286\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}