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 "title": "Evening Song",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 25,
 "container": "Part I",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
  "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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    "text": "Lo, all the passionate pale evening",
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   {
    "text": "I lay between the breasts of my beloved,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the lilies, in the lily garden.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sky was pale, and all the sunset faded,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the stars I saw not in the heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Because the glory of her face above me",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I saw alone, wrapt in a dream of slumber;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, she was more fair than all the lilies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the lilies, in the lily garden.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all her hair was golden chains to bind me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all her mouth was crimson fire to burn me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the world became as wind before me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But as the wind before her face that passes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the lilies, in the lily garden.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, her face was fairer than the stars are,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo, her breasts were whiter than the moon is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whiter than the moon, and tipp’d with crimson coral.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And low she bow’d her body, low before me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And gave me of her joy unto fulfilling:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "She bow’d her head whereto the stars do homage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Before whose face the years wax dim and fading,",
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   {
    "text": "Before whose eyes the ages pass and vanish;",
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   {
    "text": "Bow’d her low down before me like a lily,",
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    "text": "Among the lilies, in the lily garden.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now at last I care not if the morning",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come at all, or the pale stars have setting,",
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   {
    "text": "Nay I care not if the whole world perish,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perish and die, or if the white stars falter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nay I care not if the night forever",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hold me by her, and all things have ceasing;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yea, because her lips are more than roses,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yea, because her breasts are more than Heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yea, because her face is more than God is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among the lilies, in the lily garden.",
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