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 "title": "Song of India",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 57,
 "container": "Postlude",
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  "year": 1901,
  "venue": "The Book of Jade (1901)",
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   {
    "text": "Now at the last, Zulaikha, all my sorrows olden",
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   {
    "text": "Are farther off than Europe or than China seem,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And like an idle dream",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The North is faded far off in the distance golden;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And here with thee I sit in perfect peace enfolden",
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   {
    "text": "Beside the Ganges-stream.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Full well I knew that ne’er those northern promontories",
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   {
    "text": "Could give to me the dream that did my soul desire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For there my heart did tire;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For always me allur’d the strangely whisper’d stories",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of skies that burn with more consuming languid glories,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And suns of mightier fire.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "I dream’d of heavier suns than burn in skies of ours,",
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   {
    "text": "And heavier airs that through the long long evening swoon",
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   {
    "text": "Under a larger moon,",
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   {
    "text": "And heavier-scented gardens fill’d with stranger flowers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tropic palms that wave through all the long long hours",
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   {
    "text": "Of endless afternoon.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "At last now from that northern dream am I awoken,",
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   {
    "text": "At last I am come home over the watery main;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long long I sigh’d in vain;",
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   {
    "text": "Now under tropic palms I lie in peace unbroken,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And mine own land I see, beloved, and hear spoken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My natal tongue again.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Zulaikha, past is all the longing and endeavour;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The palm-trees sleep, and sleeping move not any leaf;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Perisht is woe and grief;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Stilly the padmas float upon the holy river;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Among all these we two with languid eyes forever",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lie sunk in endless kief.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Before us riseth white our marble-builded palace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hast let fall from out thy hands that weary are",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The volume of Attár.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy hand hath spill’d the wine within the silver chalice;",
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   {
    "text": "Upon the river winding through the distant valleys",
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   {
    "text": "Sleepeth the nénufar.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "From out the oleanders languid slumber steepeth,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou, Zulaihka, dost, in rest too deep for dream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like one enchanted seem;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy beauty now in waking slumber sunken sleepeth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And dreaming past thy wholly closëd eyelids creepeth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sleepy-flowing stream.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou hast the light of Asia in thy face divinest,",
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   {
    "text": "And in thy scented mouth and in thy lotus-eyes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O wine of Paradise!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O moon-fac’d love that by the sacred stream reclinest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hath this world anything for which in vain thou pinest?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That thing shall be thy prize.",
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   {
    "text": "The caravans that in the desert, heavy-laden,",
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   {
    "text": "By unknown oases pitch their sun-blacken’d tents,",
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   {
    "text": "Shall bring thee all sweet scents",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherein delight in heaven the houris ever-maiden⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Patchouli, nard, and myrrh, from many a distant aden",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of heavenly indolence.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "All kinds of gems wherefore thine almond eyes have yearning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In heaps, wherein to bathe thy beauties languorous,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O maiden amorous,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They shall bring home to thee from distant isles returning⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Pearl, sapphire, diamond, topaz, and ruby burning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And opal luminous.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou art that sweet whereof all poets dead have chaunted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Therefore my soul hath sought thy face o’er pathless seas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here to have endless peace;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the garden of delight with slumber haunted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy perfume maketh dream of desert lands enchaunted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And far-off oases.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou hast that beauty in thine all-consuming glances",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That openeth the ways to far enchanted skies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in thy lotus-eyes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hast the light that shineth in the countenances",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of them whose eyes have seen the glory which entrances",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The blest of Paradise.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Thou art all sweets that unto perfect joy devote us,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In thee all spices and all scents together come,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O lute that now art dumb!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art musk, frankincense, amomum, stephanotis,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the fragrant wine, the paradisal lotus,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the opium.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Hashsheesh nor opium are worth not thy caresses,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweeter than opium to still the spirit’s drouth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thine unassuaged mouth;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Him that hath known thy love no mortal grief distresses;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweeter thy kisses are than incense which oppresses",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The breezes of the South⁠ ⁠…",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "At last I am come home, come home; and all regretting",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is with the North afar from thee and me away.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold O love, the day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is past, in Indian skies the holy sun is setting;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The mûzin from his tower calleth unforgetting,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The faithful ones to pray.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Under the velvet night wide Indiä reposes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now in the scented dark the champak odours swoon;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Slowly the summer moon",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Riseth into the azure night made drunk with roses;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And lo the camel-bells, now that the daylight closes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tinkle their quiet tune.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Behold, O well-beloved, ’neath the moonlight gleaming",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The travellers depart from out the sleeping khan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O perfume Asiän!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And past the moonlit palace, where we two lie dreaming,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With camels and with horsemen like to shadows seeming",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Departs the caravan.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "It is the starting hour, O most melancholy!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In long procession underneath the moon’s pale gleams,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like something that but seems,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The caravan departeth to the desert slowly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There far afar to seek through endless time the holy",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mirages of their dreams.",
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   }
  ]
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