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 "title": "The Towers and the Night",
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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)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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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": "Over the White Way’s flood of light,",
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   {
    "text": "Over its sea of fiery flowers,",
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   {
    "text": "Arose the voice of the ancient Night",
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   {
    "text": "And the youthful Towers:",
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   {
    "text": "“O Night of nations passed,” the Towers said,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“One day stood high your monuments, but now",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your highest pyramid must lift its head",
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    "text": "To see the lights that crown our City’s brow.”",
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   {
    "text": "“But man,” replied the Night, “shall crown the stars",
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   {
    "text": "With flowers of thought divine,",
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   {
    "text": "And write his name upon a monument",
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   {
    "text": "Greater than yours and mine.”",
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