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 "title": "A Bed of Flame",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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  "year": 1905,
  "venue": "Myrtle and Myrrh (1905)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
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   {
    "text": "I saw one day on the horizon grey,",
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   {
    "text": "As with my load I wandered near the sea,",
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    "text": "A whiff of smoke embrace the sleeping sun;",
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   {
    "text": "And just as their enchantment had begun,",
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   {
    "text": "A lonely cloud that roved above the lea",
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    "text": "Passed by their couch and hid them from the day.",
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    "text": "I saw this and my soul, long silent, cried:",
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    "text": "“Would that I were the whiff of smoke",
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   {
    "text": "Now sleeping with the sun!",
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   {
    "text": "In beds of flame, how often was I tried⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "How often have I ’neath the stroke",
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   {
    "text": "Of God or Satan shone!”",
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