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  "venue": "November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888)",
  "note": "Printed in “Sands at Seventy,” the verse section of November Boughs, and gathered into Leaves of Grass as the First Annex in 1891–92, which is the arrangement the corpus text follows. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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    "text": "As the Greek’s signal flame, by antique records told,",
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   {
    "text": "Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,",
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    "text": "Welcoming in fame some special veteran, hero,",
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   {
    "text": "With rosy tinge reddening the land he’d served,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So I aloft from Mannahatta’s ship-fringed shore,",
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    "text": "Lift high a kindled brand for thee, Old Poet.",
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