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 "id": "ameen-rihani/the-sister-of-death",
 "title": "The Sister of Death",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": 12,
 "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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   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
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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": "Ah, talk to me of something else, I pray;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I’m weary of the dreams that bring nor sleep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor rest, nor love, nor something from the deep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where buried are the gods of yesterday;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah, talk to me of Death that takes away",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My little sorrows, as they hide and peep,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My little joys, as they disport and leap,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My little vanities, my budless May.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The burden of my virtues and my sins,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The burden of authority that grins",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At every effort, ah, the burden kills;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I know that Death a Sister hath, but where,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where can I find thee, Love, when shall I share",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sweetness of the silence of the hills?",
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}