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 "id": "walt-whitman/camps-of-green",
 "title": "Camps of Green",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 285,
 "container": "Songs of Parting",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1865 Drum-Taps scan. The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When as order’d forward, after a long march,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Outposts of pickets posted surrounding alert through the dark,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till to the call of the drummers at daybreak loudly beating the drums,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We rise up refresh’d, the night and sleep pass’d over, and resume our journey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or proceed to battle.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "Lo, the camps of the tents of green,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With a mystic army, (is it too order’d forward? is it too only halting awhile,",
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   {
    "text": "Till night and sleep pass over?)",
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   {
    "text": "Now in those camps of green, in their tents dotting the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,",
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   {
    "text": "Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of each of us O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(There without hatred we all, all meet.)",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "For presently O soldiers, we too camp in our place in the bivouac-camps of green,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But we need not provide for outposts, nor word for the counter-sign,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.",
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