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 "title": "Among the Multitude",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Among the men and women the multitude,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,",
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   {
    "text": "Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some are baffled, but that one is not⁠—that one knows me.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Ah lover and perfect equal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.",
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