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 "id": "ameen-rihani/fardi-wa-nafli",
 "title": "Fardi wa Nafli",
 "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": 3,
 "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"
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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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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  [
   {
    "text": "“Here she is: O take her not away so soon!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Spare her youth⁠—the fatal cup from her withhold!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Let her groan within my arms in life’s forenoon;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let me still my soul within her eyes unfold.”",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "God of Love! my faith in thee is not yet gray:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grant that she may walk again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Free from suffering and pain⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give her life to see the altar’s light one day.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In the night, before the day that never came,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On the way with poppies and gardenias strewn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With her music and her torch’s holy flame,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She was struck and never since saw sun or moon.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "God of Light! refuse her not another ray:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her bridal garment joins with me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In beseeching, begging thee⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give her life to see the altar’s light one day.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "All the sorrow earth contains I can support,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the agony and pain I can endure;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Years of misery will seem surprising short,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If to me thou leav’st her, though without a cure.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All my dreams before thy throne, O God, I slay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These my offerings let be,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These my sacrifice to thee⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give her life to see the altar’s light one day.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“Hurry here! O get the doctors⁠—call the nurse⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Call the priest⁠—be quick⁠—some more digitaline⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He is here, alas! before you all⁠—a hearse.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death has passed us by; take up the violin!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To Thy heart my music fain would find its way;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Every sound Thy grace would earn;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let it not as sad return⁠—",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Give her life to see the altar’s light one day.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Every wound and every sigh and groan and tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Every drop of Saada’s melting flesh and hope",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now ascend, wrapt in this music, pale and blear⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Around Thy throne, in gyves of pain, they blindly grope.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What remains, what’s gone of her before Thee lay:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Faith and Doubt are at Thy door⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mother, brother, pray, implore⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give her life to see the altar’s light one day.",
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   }
  ]
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