=* A Distributed Proofreaders Canada eBook *= This ebook is made available at no cost and with very few restrictions. These restrictions apply only if (1) you make a change in the ebook (other than alteration for different display devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of the ebook. If either of these conditions applies, please contact a FP administrator before proceeding. This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. IF THE BOOK IS UNDER COPYRIGHT IN YOUR COUNTRY, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR REDISTRIBUTE THIS FILE. _Title:_ In the Shadows _Date of first publication:_ 1898 _Author:_ Emily Pauline Johnson _Date first posted:_ October 3, 2014 _Date last updated:_ October 3, 2014 Faded Page eBook #20141004 This ebook was produced by: L. Harrison, Ross Cooling & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net IN THE SHADOWS BY E. PAULINE JOHNSON IN THE SHADOWS I am sailing to the leeward, Where the current runs to seaward Soft and slow. Where the sleeping river grasses Brush my paddle as it passes To and fro. On the shore the heat is shaking All the golden sands awaking In the cove; And the quaint sand-piper, winging O’er the shallows, ceases singing When I move. On the water’s idle pillow Sleeps the overhanging willow, Green and cool; Where the rushes lift their burnished Oval heads from out the tarnished Emerald pool. Where the very silence slumbers, Water lilies grow in numbers, Pure and pale; All the morning they have rested, Amber crowned, and pearly crested, Fair and frail. Here, impossible romances, Indefinable sweet fancies, Cluster round; But they do not mar the sweetness Of this still September fleetness With a sound. I can scarce discern the meeting Of the shore and stream retreating, So remote; For the laggard river, dozing, Only wakes from its reposing Where I float. Where the river mists are rising, All the foliage baptizing With their spray; There the sun gleams far and faintly, With a shadow soft and saintly, In its ray. And the perfume of some burning Far-off brushwood, ever turning To exhale All its smoky fragrance dying, In the arms of evening lying, Where I sail. My canoe is growing lazy, In the atmosphere so hazy, While I dream; Half in slumber I am guiding, Eastward indistinctly gliding Down the stream. “In the Shadows” is taken from _The White Wampum_, a book of verses by E. Pauline Johnson, published in London by John Lane, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co., and Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., 1895. Now privately reprinted, in an edition of two hundred copies, for Laurence C. Woodworth and his friends at the nineteenth annual meet of the American Canoe Association, Stave Island, St. Lawrence River, August, MDCCCXCVIII. [The end of _In the Shadows_ by Emily Pauline Johnson]