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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "As they draw to a close,",
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   {
    "text": "Of what underlies the precedent songs⁠—of my aims in them,",
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   {
    "text": "Of the seed I have sought to plant in them,",
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   {
    "text": "Of joy, sweet joy, through many a year, in them,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(For them, for them have I lived, in them my work is done,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;",
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   {
    "text": "Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,",
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    "text": "To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God⁠—to the joyous, electric all,",
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   {
    "text": "To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,",
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   {
    "text": "The entrance of man to sing;",
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   {
    "text": "To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives,",
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   {
    "text": "To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams,",
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   {
    "text": "And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine,",
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   {
    "text": "With you O soul.",
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