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 "title": "It Was All for Him",
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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": "I strolled upon the Brooklyn Bridge one day,",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath the storm;",
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   {
    "text": "None but a lad in rags upon the way",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I saw;⁠—there on a bench he lay",
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    "text": "Heedless of form.",
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   {
    "text": "He seemingly was reading what the Shower",
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   {
    "text": "Was publishing upon the Bridge and down the Bay;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet he was writing, writing at this hour⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Writing in a careless sort of way.",
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   {
    "text": "Upon a pad he scribbled and as fast the rain",
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    "text": "Retouched, effaced, corrected and revised.",
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   {
    "text": "Was he recording Nature’s solemn strain,",
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    "text": "Or sketching choristers therein disguised?",
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    "text": "Whatever it be, I found myself quite by his side;",
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   {
    "text": "My nod and smile he pocketed and wrote again;",
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   {
    "text": "“Read me your drizzling stuff,” I said, and he replied:",
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   {
    "text": "“I’ve written a check in payment for this shower of rain.”",
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