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 "id": "ameen-rihani/resurrection",
 "title": "Resurrection",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
 "poet_slug": "ameen-rihani",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
 "book_slug": "myrtle-and-myrrh",
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 "sequence": 6,
 "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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  [
   {
    "text": "The ghost of Winter stalks amidst the boughs",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Spring and drags along his icy shroud;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The corn flowers and the wheat, with broken vows,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are now beneath the storm untimely bowed.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O Winter, thou wert buried on the hills;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thine epitaph was written with melted snow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy skeleton is in the barren rills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where once thy silvery life-blood used to flow.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Why visitest the glimpses of the sun",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So soon, what message bring’st thou from the dead?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why rudely interrupt the children’s fun",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And havoc among the Guests of Summer spread?",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Behold, the branches shiver, the blossoms fall;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The lilac in the leaves a shelter seeks;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy savage winds the Queen of May appal⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They pale with summer’s dust her rosy cheeks.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Withhold the solemn music of thy gale",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until the golden notes of Spring are spun;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The opera in the trees is but begun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, drown it not with thy benighted wail.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "For thee May’s winged madonnas will not sing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor in thy presence will they now appear:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Begone, that their sweet voices we may hear⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Begone, the world today belongs to Spring.",
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   }
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