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 "id": "ameen-rihani/my-burnoose",
 "title": "My Burnoose",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": null,
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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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   "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": "Into this world they tell me I was sent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wrapt in a burnoose, which was rudely rent",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And flung away, by her who first didst touch",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My steaming flesh; I never loved her much,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The surly, stolid, sordid, spectral hag:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For never would my star of fortune lag⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No dwarf of earth to oppose my will would dare⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If my sebaceous burnoose she did spare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And if around my neck, the ajouz says,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It hung, locked in a charm, for twenty days.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But ever since the amulet was torn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The curse of gods and jinn and men I’ve worn;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And to my flesh it stuck⁠—a Nessus shirt⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Despite the oozing blood, and not spurt",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of power, alas! is left me to control",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The stinging tongue of an avenging soul.",
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