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 "id": "ameen-rihani/her-first-sorrow",
 "title": "Her First Sorrow",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
 "book_slug": "myrtle-and-myrrh",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 23,
 "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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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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  [
   {
    "text": "’T is but a score of hours when he didst swear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My sorrow and my joy to share,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Despite the fates, fore’er;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But now he’s gone to cash again his lie;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Others his shame with me will wear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should I die?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Last night his lips my very feet didst burn;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His kisses dropt, my love to earn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whichever way he’d turn;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But now he’s gone another soul to rob.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Another heart to lure and spurn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should I sob?",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "He did not kiss me when he said good-bye;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I let him go, not asking why,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor do I for him sigh;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He’s gone another virgin breast to tear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He’s gone on other lips to die,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should I care?",
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