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 "title": "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Drum-Taps",
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  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1865 Drum-Taps scan. The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. 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": "A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,",
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   {
    "text": "As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,",
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   {
    "text": "As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,",
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   {
    "text": "Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.",
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   {
    "text": "Curious I halt and silent stand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray’d hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?",
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   {
    "text": "Who are you my dear comrade?",
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   {
    "text": "Then to the second I step⁠—and who are you my child and darling?",
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   {
    "text": "Who are you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming?",
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   {
    "text": "Then to the third⁠—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory;",
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   {
    "text": "Young man I think I know you⁠—I think this face is the face of the Christ himself,",
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   {
    "text": "Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.",
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