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 "title": "She Went Out Singing",
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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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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "She went out singing, and the poppies still",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crowd round her door awaiting her return;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She went out dancing, and the doleful rill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lingers beneath her walls her news to learn.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Their love is but a seed of what she has sown;",
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   {
    "text": "Their grief is but a shadow of my own.",
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   {
    "text": "O Tomb, O Tomb! did Zahra’s beauty fade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or dost thou still preserve it in thy gloom?",
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   {
    "text": "O Tomb, thou art nor firmament nor glade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet in thee shines the moon and lilies bloom.",
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