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 "id": "ameen-rihani/a-nocturn",
 "title": "A Nocturn",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
 "poet_slug": "ameen-rihani",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Chant_of_Mystics_and_Other_Poems",
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Upon the face of darkness beams my soul⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nearby, behind the curtains of my sight;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And ’round it weary waves of wonder roll⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sad seas of color o’er dead seas of light:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is no Space, no Time⁠—nor day nor night⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is the boundless, undiminished Whole⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is my soul.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here is no love that hides beneath its shoal",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sandix that can redden a sea of years;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is no lust that lies to Beauty’s mole",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And draws from eyes of flint a flood of tears;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is no disenchantment and no fears⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No blasted hopes, no jaunty joy, no dole⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is my soul.",
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   {
    "text": "Now lost in clay and water; now the Whole",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is lost within me: sea and earth and sky",
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   {
    "text": "I dismiss from my presence, as I roll",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My lids and lo, the lord of night am I.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into the airless wilderness I fly;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is no vain desire, no galling goal⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is my soul.",
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   {
    "text": "In Eternity, shod with the hoary noul",
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   {
    "text": "Of deathless Death⁠—in dim and shimmering shades",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of soilless vales that bosom and cajole",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The crystal flowers dropping from cloud-cascades;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here in the grove of myriad colonnades",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of jet and pearl and amber I now stroll⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here is my soul.",
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