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 "title": "As if a Phantom Caress’d Me",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Whispers of Heavenly Death",
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  "year": 1860,
  "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": "As if a phantom caress’d me,",
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   {
    "text": "I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress’d me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.",
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