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 "title": "The Song of Rain",
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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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  "year": 1921,
  "venue": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems (1921)",
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   {
    "text": "Allah is merciful, Allah is kind,",
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   {
    "text": "His heart, in the tears of the earth, is enshrined;",
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   {
    "text": "He chains the desire",
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   {
    "text": "Of whirlwind and fire:⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The Drought, the Simoon and their forces entire,",
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   {
    "text": "In the fast spreading shades of his pity, suspire;⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It rains, it rains.",
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   {
    "text": "Allah is gracious, Allah is sweet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The desert is flowering under his feet;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "E’en the fires he fanned,",
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   {
    "text": "And the mountains they spanned,",
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   {
    "text": "And the caverns that groan under burdens of sand",
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    "text": "Are dazed with the bounties that flow from his hand;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It rains, it rains!",
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   {
    "text": "Allah ’s all-seeing, Allah is wise,",
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   {
    "text": "The palm from the stone to praise him shall rise;",
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   {
    "text": "The deer in the dale,",
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    "text": "The plant in the shale,",
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   {
    "text": "The bird in the nest, and the gull in the gale",
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   {
    "text": "Are joyously chanting, Hail, Allah, hail!",
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   {
    "text": "It rains, it rains!",
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   {
    "text": "Allah is mighty, Allah is great,",
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   {
    "text": "His hands all things resuscitate;",
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   {
    "text": "He burns the shroud,",
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   {
    "text": "He shakes the cloud,",
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   {
    "text": "And the dead of the earth with new life are endowed⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The bones of the earth are joyous and proud;⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It rains, it rains!",
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