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 "title": "Ashtoreth",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "In thy blue pallid gown that shimmereth",
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   {
    "text": "So pale thou standest in the wan moonlight,",
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   {
    "text": "Where the gold censer near thy body white",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wraps thee around with its perfumed breath;",
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  [
   {
    "text": "So wan thy high tiara glimmereth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Above thy mystical far eyes of light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou seemest some dead goddess of the night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O starry love, O changeless Ashtoreth.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Pallid thou standest in thy divinity,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like some moon-idol of the buried time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before whose face priests sing in solemn chime.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "So I prostrate before thy deity,",
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   {
    "text": "Unto thy face have solemn praises sung,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in my hands a golden censer swung.",
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