{"id":2695,"date":"2013-08-03T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2013-08-03T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:15:42","slug":"on-ederachillis-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/on-ederachillis-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ederachillis&#8217; Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for inspiration for &#8216;wolf&#8217; themed paintings when Julie pointed me towards this poem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  On Ederachillis\u2019 shore<br \/>\n  The grey wolf lies in wait-<br \/>\n  Woe to the broken door,<br \/>\n  Woe to the loosened gate,<br \/>\n  And the groping wretch whom sleety fogs<br \/>\n  On the trackless moor belate.<\/p>\n<p>  The lean and hungry wolf,<br \/>\n  With his fangs so sharp and white,<br \/>\n  His starveling body pinched<br \/>\n  By the frost of a northern night,<br \/>\n  And his pitiless eyes that scare the dark<br \/>\n  With their green and threatening light.<\/p>\n<p>  He climeth the guarding dyke,<br \/>\n  He leapeth the hurdle bars,<br \/>\n  He steals the sheep from the pen,<br \/>\n  And the fish from the boat-house spars,<br \/>\n  And the digs the dead from out of the sod,<br \/>\n  And gnaws them under the stars.<\/p>\n<p>  Thus every grave we dug<br \/>\n  The hungry wolf uptore,<br \/>\n  And every morn the sod<br \/>\n  Was strewn with bones and gore:<br \/>\n  Our mother-earth had denied us rest<br \/>\n  On Ederchaillis\u2019 shore<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excerpt from a poem in The Book of Highland Minstrelsy, 1846, and if you&#8217;ve got a copy lying around please feel free to forward it my way \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a quick painting to get me in the mood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wolf-poem-700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2694\" alt=\"wolf-poem-700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wolf-poem-700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wolf-poem-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wolf-poem-700-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for inspiration for &#8216;wolf&#8217; themed paintings when Julie pointed me towards this poem&#8230; On Ederachillis\u2019 shore The grey wolf lies in wait- Woe to the broken door, Woe to the loosened gate, And the groping wretch whom sleety fogs On the trackless moor belate. The lean and hungry wolf, With his fangs so sharp and white, His starveling body pinched By the frost of a northern night, And his pitiless eyes that scare the dark With their green and threatening light. He climeth the guarding dyke, He&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[469,468],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-poem","tag-wolf"],"gutentor_comment":2,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}