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 "id": "ameen-rihani/allah-wa-ana",
 "title": "Allah wa Ana",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
 "poet_slug": "ameen-rihani",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
 "book_slug": "myrtle-and-myrrh",
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 "sequence": 36,
 "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": [
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Chant_of_Mystics_and_Other_Poems",
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
   "https://archive.org/details/chantofmysticsot00riha"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Though I’m God, thou art man, we are one,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We are all and we shall ever be;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though the light of my sky thou didst shun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou shalt love me ere thy course is run,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As forever I live loving thee.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou art mine, I am thine and the fire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of my breath all thy regions shall warm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere the life in thy soil shall expire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ere the seeds of thy basest desire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From their prison break out and take form.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou wilt doubt and deny me forsooth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And rejoice in thy vanity’s power;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou wilt die on the breast of my truth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the end thou wilt laugh at thy youth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And its wine although old will be sour.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I was with thee when thou didst deny,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As I am with thy mother at prayer;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I was with thee when thou didst defy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My hell and my earth and my sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I love none the less those that dare.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In the yogi’s pagoda I am;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the fire of the magi I was;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the sons of Abraheem and Sham",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And their foes and to thee I undam",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the banks of my veins on the cross.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Through the spheres and the primitive throngs",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I came down and I struggled with thee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Through the ages I sing in thy songs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But I leave thee to rise on thy wrongs;⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou shalt rise and thou shalt live in me.",
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   }
  ]
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