{
 "id": "ameen-rihani/a-serenade",
 "title": "A Serenade",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
 "poet_slug": "ameen-rihani",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
 "book_slug": "myrtle-and-myrrh",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 17,
 "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.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/ameen-rihani_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Myrtle_and_Myrrh",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Chant_of_Mystics_and_Other_Poems",
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
   "https://archive.org/details/chantofmysticsot00riha"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 24,
  "n_stanzas": 3,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 41,
  "max_indent": 4
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "The moon hath said her sad good-bye,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My sleeping queen;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And all the stars are wondering why",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art unseen.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Behold! abashed, they take to flight,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "As through the casement breaks thy light.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, my dawn, arise!",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, my queen serene!",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The field of heaven is all thine own,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My peerless star,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Just as my heart is thine alone,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Be near or far.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "So let thy face adorn the night,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And flood it with thy dazzling light.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, my queen, arise!",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, to my guitar!",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The vaults above all vacant seem,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My sweetest flower;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "And for thy scent, the cherubim",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Long at this hour.",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A moment from thy sweet dream part,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Though in that dream be wove my heart.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Arise, my queen, arise!",
    "indent": 4
   },
   {
    "text": "Let fall thy perfume shower.",
    "indent": 4
   }
  ]
 ]
}