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 "title": "Gone with the Swallows",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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  "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Must I convey at last the news to thee?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must I now mourn the love that lived in me?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gone with the autumn, with the dying year.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gone with the kisses that are yet so near!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gone with the swallows somewhere o’er the sea!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But with the Spring will he again",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Return, will he with me remain?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must I till then, remembering naught,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forgetting all that love had brought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grope in the shadows of the slain?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must I forget the day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That took my love away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the happy hours",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That reared for him their towers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And crowned him with the flowers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of all the queens of May?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Must I alone",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My once my own,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In my retreat",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The new year greet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And winter meet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And winds hear moan?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not yet",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Can I",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forget;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But why",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One clings",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sings",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To things",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That die?",
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