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 "title": "A Twilight Song",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Goodbye My Fancy",
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  "year": 1891,
  "venue": "Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,",
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   {
    "text": "Musing on long-pass’d war-scenes⁠—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the vacant names, as unindented air’s and sea’s⁠—the unreturn’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill’d trenches",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of gather’d dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From wooded Maine, New-England’s farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the measureless West, Virginia, the South, the Carolinas, Texas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again I see the stalwart ranks on-filing, rising⁠—I hear the rhythmic tramp of the armies;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You million unwrit names all, all⁠—you dark bequest from all the war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A special verse for you⁠—a flash of duty long neglected⁠—your mystic roll strangely gather’d here,",
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   {
    "text": "Each name recall’d by me from out the darkness and death’s ashes,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Henceforth to be, deep, deep within my heart recording, for many a future year,",
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   {
    "text": "Your mystic roll entire of unknown names, or North or South,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Embalm’d with love in this twilight song.",
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