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 "id": "ameen-rihani/stolen-salvias",
 "title": "Stolen Salvias",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": 25,
 "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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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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  [
   {
    "text": "O, bleeding blossoms, tell, were my heart there⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There in your bed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Would that sweet thief that stole you unaware",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Have stolen it instead?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come with me, scarlet salvias, to your home;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We are not late;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Love in the moonlight there again will roam⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There let us wait.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I still remember when one night she crowned",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me with the stars",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Plucked from your scarlet sky⁠—she would astound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The kings of Mars.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She then would slay me⁠—wash the face of night",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With my bold blood⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ay, she would show that yours is not as bright",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And not as good.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, scarlet salvias, why should I refuse",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When I’m with you?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why should I chill my lady, if she choose",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To steal me too?",
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