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 "title": "The Song of Siva",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "book": "A Chant of Mystics and Other Poems",
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  "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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    "text": "’T is Night; all the Sirens are silent,",
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   {
    "text": "All the Vultures asleep;",
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   {
    "text": "And the horns of the Tempest are stirring",
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   {
    "text": "Under the Deep;",
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   {
    "text": "’T is Night; all the snow-burdened Mountains",
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   {
    "text": "Dream of the Sea,",
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   {
    "text": "And down in the Wadi the River",
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    "text": "Is calling to me.",
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   {
    "text": "’T is Night; all the Caves of the Spirit",
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   {
    "text": "Shake with desire,",
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    "text": "And the Orient Heaven ’s essaying",
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    "text": "Its lances of fire;",
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    "text": "They hear, in the stillness that covers",
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    "text": "The land and the sea,",
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    "text": "The River, in the heart of the Wadi,",
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    "text": "Calling to me.",
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    "text": "’T is night, but a night of great joyance,",
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    "text": "A night of unrest;⁠—",
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    "text": "The night of the birth of the spirit",
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    "text": "Of the East and the West;",
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    "text": "And the Caves and the Mountains are dancing",
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    "text": "On the Foam of the Sea,",
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    "text": "For the River inundant is calling,",
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    "text": "Calling to me.",
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