{"id":1244,"date":"2019-06-30T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1244"},"modified":"2019-06-30T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:52:45","slug":"the-reach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/?page_id=1244","title":{"rendered":"The Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Fogelberg<\/a> wrote this song about Eggemoggin Reach in Maine. He had a place nearby on Deer Isle. Maine is a favourite place of mine so I just had to learn this song.<\/p>\n

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It’s Maine…
\nAnd it’s Autumn
\nThe birches have just begun turning
\nIt’s life and it’s dying
\nThe lobstermen’s boats come returning
\nWith the catch of they day in their holds
\nand the young boys cold and complaining
\nThe fog meets the beaches and out on
\nthe Reach it is raining —<\/p>\n

It’s father and son
\nIt’s the way it’s been done since the old days
\nIt’s hauling by hand ten miles out
\nfrom the land where their chow waits
\nAll the days get so lonely and long
\nand seas grow so stormy and strong but
\nThe Reach will sing welcome as homeward
\nthey hurry along.<\/p>\n

And the morning will blow away
\nAs the waves crash and fall
\nAnd the Reach like a siren sings
\nas she beckons and calls
\nAs the coastline recedes from view
\nAnd the seas swell and roll
\nI will take from the Reach
\nall that she has to teach
\nTo the depths of my soul —<\/p>\n

The wind brings a chill
\nThere’s a frost on the sill in the morning
\nIt creeps through the door
\nAt the edge of the shore
\nice is forming
\nSoon the northers will bluster and blow
\nAnd the woods will be whitened
\nwith snowfall
\nAnd the Reach will lie frozen
\nfor the lost and unchosen to row —<\/p>\n

And the morning will blow away
\nAs the waves crash and fall
\nAnd the Reach like a siren sings
\nas she beckons and calls
\nAs the coastline recedes from view
\nAnd the seas swell and roll
\nI will take from the Reach
\nall that she has to teach
\nTo the depths of my soul —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Fogelberg wrote this song about Eggemoggin Reach in Maine. He had a place nearby on Deer Isle. Maine is a favourite place of mine so I just had to learn this song.   It’s Maine… And it’s Autumn The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88892,"featured_media":0,"parent":1219,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1244\/revisions\/1245"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffhaslam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}