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 "title": "Reflections",
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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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  "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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    "text": "I walked along the countryside",
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   {
    "text": "At eventide,",
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   {
    "text": "And everywhere",
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   {
    "text": "The road was fair",
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   {
    "text": "With moons of water here and there,",
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   {
    "text": "Into whose heart the grasses spied.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And suddenly upon them shone",
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   {
    "text": "The light of the City’s eye,",
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   {
    "text": "Reflected from a bulb on high,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which made them and their shadow one.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nay, made each moon",
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   {
    "text": "A mirror seem",
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   {
    "text": "To serve the dream",
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    "text": "Of tender blades in bending grace a-swoon.",
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    "text": "I walked into the night,",
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   {
    "text": "And every abode",
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    "text": "Beyond the dark, deserted road",
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    "text": "Was a prattle of light.",
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   {
    "text": "And I thought of the Eye Unseen",
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   {
    "text": "Which sheds its charitable sheen,",
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   {
    "text": "Not on our goal,",
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   {
    "text": "But on the by-ways of the Soul.",
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