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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": "Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck,",
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   {
    "text": "My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return,",
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   {
    "text": "We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,",
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    "text": "We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.",
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