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 "title": "Eighteen Sixty-One",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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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": "Arm’d year⁠—year of the struggle,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you terrible year,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not you as some pale poetling seated at a desk lisping cadenzas piano,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But as a strong man erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across the continent,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your masculine voice O year, as rising amid the great cities,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Amid the men of Manhattan I saw you as one of the workmen, the dwellers in Manhattan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or down from the great lakes or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Heard your determin’d voice launch’d forth again and again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round-lipp’d cannon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.",
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