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 "title": "Hanem",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1921,
  "venue": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems (1921)",
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Hanem, we must have met before,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perhaps a thousand years ago;",
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   {
    "text": "I still remember when I tore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your virgin veil of lunar snow.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By Allah, I remember, too,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When, sousing in my mortal bain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You bit my lip and said, “Adieu,",
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   {
    "text": "When shall we, Syrian, meet again?”",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Hanem, thine eyes are brighter far",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than when in mine they shone one day;",
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   {
    "text": "I wager every moon and star",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The tax of lustre to them pay.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And those who dared with them to jest,",
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   {
    "text": "Where are they now?⁠—those lovers slain",
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   {
    "text": "Who whispered dying on your breast,",
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   {
    "text": "“O Hanem, shall we meet again?”",
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   {
    "text": "The victims of your eyes are here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In pyramids they keep their clay;",
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   {
    "text": "And even your sister Flames are near⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They fain would kiss my soul away.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Full many a time from them you bore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This mortal love, this mortal gain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Remember Nubia’s sable shore⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When shall we, Hanem, meet again?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Why quickly through the Cairo street?⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will you return?⁠—Shall I remain?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fate might not ever the chance repeat;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When shall we, Hanem, meet again?",
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