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 "id": "ameen-rihani/after-reading-king-lear",
 "title": "After Reading King Lear",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "book": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems",
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  "year": 1921,
  "venue": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems (1921)",
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   {
    "text": "Is ’t strange that in the cycle of his woes,",
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   {
    "text": "Which shakes his cloud-embosomed peak of years",
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   {
    "text": "And shatters the very fountain of his tears,",
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   {
    "text": "He seeks the friendly path of winds and snows?",
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   {
    "text": "When Villany forgiven more villanous grows,",
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   {
    "text": "And Treason in his robes herself attires,",
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   {
    "text": "And Love beneath Adultery’s sheet expires,",
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   {
    "text": "Is ’t strange that mating with the Storm he goes?",
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   {
    "text": "Father and King! in sooth, they know thee well⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The Whirlwind and the Forest and the Night;",
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   {
    "text": "But we who in the obscure shelters dwell",
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   {
    "text": "Know better of thy sorrow than thy might.",
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   {
    "text": "Father and King! thy heritage is vast;",
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   {
    "text": "Wherever children be, its seeds are cast.",
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