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 "title": "City of Ships",
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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": "City of ships!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O the beautiful sharp-bow’d steam-ships and sail-ships!)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "City of the world! (for all races are here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All the lands of the earth make contributions here;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!",
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    "text": "City of wharves and stores⁠—city of tall façades of marble and iron!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Proud and passionate city⁠—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Spring up O city⁠—not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!",
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   {
    "text": "Fear not⁠—submit to no models but your own O city!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Behold me⁠—incarnate me as I have incarnated you!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have rejected nothing you offer’d me⁠—whom you adopted I have adopted,",
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   {
    "text": "Good or bad I never question you⁠—I love all⁠—I do not condemn anything,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I chant and celebrate all that is yours⁠—yet peace no more,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "War, red war is my song through your streets, O city!",
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