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 "title": "Delicate Cluster",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 178,
 "container": "Drum-Taps",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1871,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Washington, 1871)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1871 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)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Covering all my lands⁠—all my seashores lining!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battle pressing!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Flag cerulean⁠—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah my silvery beauty⁠—ah my woolly white and crimson!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My sacred one, my mother!",
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   }
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}