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 "id": "ameen-rihani/onward-keep",
 "title": "Onward Keep",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": 35,
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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": "Onward keep! Forget the self that cried:",
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   {
    "text": "“This world’s a forest choked with ice and snow;",
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   {
    "text": "No spark of fire through it can ever ride,",
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   {
    "text": "No human flame in it can ever glow.”",
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   {
    "text": "And keeping onward, now, I find",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The golden leaves of yesterday",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All safely hidden from the wind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath the snow that melts away,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on the shivering boughs",
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   },
   {
    "text": "New leaves and tender sprout;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They crown the winter’s brows,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And laugh away his doubt.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the brook",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The echoes of",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What I forsook⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What I did love.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the frost",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Neath the breath",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of me must",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Welcome death;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the heat",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Left behind",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Guides the feet",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the blind.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Onward keep;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Laugh and weep;",
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   {
    "text": "Pain and joy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hide and peep.",
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   {
    "text": "Rise and fall⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fall and rise;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This is all⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This is wise.",
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