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 "id": "ameen-rihani/the-philistine",
 "title": "The Philistine",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": 2,
 "container": null,
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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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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 cricket to the corn-crake came one day,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shivering, yet buzzing in his wanton way,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And said: “I’m slain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By hunger, brother, turn thou not from me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Tis winter, and I only beg of thee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A little grain.”",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The corn-crake grinned and said in tone sublime:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Where wert thou hidden in the harvest time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou dinning drone?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Why didst thou not come with us to the fields",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To gather something for thy winter meals",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of what had grown?”",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "“O, I was entertaining with my rhymes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The vineyards, and the fig trees, and the thymes",
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   {
    "text": "The summer long.”",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“No then,” replied the corn-crake, “not a seed",
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   {
    "text": "Have I for such as thou; go home and feed",
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   {
    "text": "Upon thy Song.”",
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