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 "title": "A Promise to California",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "A promise to California,",
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   {
    "text": "Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain, to teach robust American love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.",
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