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 "title": "Song of the Stars in Praise of Her",
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 "poet": "David Park Barnitz",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Book of Jade",
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 "sequence": 26,
 "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "O starry light of the dim universe!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The night adoreth thee, the planets high",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That reign far off within the desert sky",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Praise thee as with the sound of dulcimers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the temples of the night rehearse",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy solemn glory everlastingly!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O thou for whom the moon’s pale-lighted star",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the planets and the milky gleam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But as a little of thy praising seem,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the great lights that swim through heaven afar",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But the reflection of thy glory are;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou only art; these are but shine and dream;",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Thou art that light that doth the stars illume,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the glimmer of the moon divine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All these are but the garment that is thine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the wonder and the glow, the bloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the lonely lamp in night’s great gloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou art the skyey light, the starry shine.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Starlight is but the glory of thy face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The shimmer of the silver planets pale",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is but the dim effulgence of thy veil;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the great passing of the nights and days",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is all but as the perfume of thy praise.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O Holy, Holy, Holy, hail, O hail!",
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