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 "id": "walt-whitman/for-him-i-sing",
 "title": "For Him I Sing",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1871,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Washington, 1871)",
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  "uncertain": false,
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  ]
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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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    "date": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "For him I sing,",
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   {
    "text": "I raise the present on the past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To make himself by them the law unto himself.",
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