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 "title": "As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "As toilsome I wander’d Virginia’s woods,",
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   {
    "text": "To the music of rustling leaves kick’d by my feet, (for ’twas autumn,)",
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   {
    "text": "I mark’d at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier;",
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   {
    "text": "Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand,)",
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   {
    "text": "The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose⁠—yet this sign left,",
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   {
    "text": "On a tablet scrawl’d and nail’d on the tree by the grave,",
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   {
    "text": "Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.",
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   {
    "text": "Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,",
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   {
    "text": "Comes before me the unknown soldier’s grave, comes the inscription rude in Virginia’s woods,",
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   {
    "text": "Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.",
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