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 "title": "The Wanderer",
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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": "I wander among the hills of alien lands",
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   {
    "text": "Where Nature her prerogative resigns",
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   {
    "text": "To Man; where Comfort in her shack reclines",
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   {
    "text": "And all the arts and sciences commands.",
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   {
    "text": "But in my soul",
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   {
    "text": "The eastern billows roll⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "I hear the voices of my native strands.",
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   {
    "text": "My lingering eyes, a lonely hemlock fills",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With grace and splendor rising manifold;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Beneath her boughs the maples spread their gold",
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   {
    "text": "And at her feet, the silver of the rills.",
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   {
    "text": "But in my heart",
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    "text": "A peasant void of art",
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    "text": "Echoes the voices of my native hills.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "On every height a studied art confines",
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   {
    "text": "All human joy in social pulchritude;",
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   {
    "text": "The boxwood frowns where beckoning birches stood,",
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   {
    "text": "And where the thrushes carolled Fashion dines.",
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   {
    "text": "But through the spreading cheer",
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   {
    "text": "The shepherd’s reed I hear",
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   {
    "text": "Beneath my Lebanon terebinths and pines.",
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   {
    "text": "And though no voices here are heard of toil,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor accents least of sorrow, nor the din",
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   {
    "text": "Of multitudes, nor even at the Inn",
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   {
    "text": "The City is permitted aught to spoil,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet in my breast,",
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   {
    "text": "A shack at best,",
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    "text": "Laments the mother of my native soil.",
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    "text": "Even where the sumptuous solitudes deny",
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   {
    "text": "A shelter to a bird or butterfly,",
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   {
    "text": "As in the humblest dwelling of the dale",
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   {
    "text": "A gracious welcome ’s shown the passer-by;",
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   {
    "text": "But evermore clear",
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    "text": "Allwhere I hear",
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   {
    "text": "The calling of my native hut and sky.",
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    "text": "Land of my birth! a handful of thy sod",
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   {
    "text": "Resuscitates the flower of my faith;",
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   {
    "text": "For whatsoever the seer of science sayth,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou art the cradle and the tomb of God;",
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   {
    "text": "And forever I behold",
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   {
    "text": "A vision old",
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   {
    "text": "Of Beauty weeping where He once hath trod.",
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