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 "id": "ameen-rihani/thy-smile",
 "title": "Thy Smile",
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 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
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 "sequence": 15,
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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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   {
    "text": "Outside the gates of night, above the moon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where breatheth none but gods, where light alone",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forever rules from his star-studded throne,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Melancholy never reaches noon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And where the Pleiades their harps attune⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There in the centre of the lightning zone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Upon the zephyr which the storm hath sown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou first wert formed with pleasure to commune.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now in Pleasure’s world, upon the face",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of bright and gay Bohemia’s fairest child",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The zephyr dallies with the lightning flash;",
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   {
    "text": "The smile divine, as well the subtle grace",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are deeply there impressed, by naught defiled⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There joy’s received as well as paid in cash.",
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