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 "title": "City of Orgies",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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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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   {
    "text": "City of orgies, walks and joys,",
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   {
    "text": "City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,",
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   {
    "text": "Not the pageants of you, not your shifting tableaus, your spectacles, repay me,",
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   {
    "text": "Not the interminable rows of your houses, nor the ships at the wharves,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright windows with goods in them,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor to converse with learn’d persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Offering response to my own⁠—these repay me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.",
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