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 "title": "For You O Democracy",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,",
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   {
    "text": "I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,",
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   {
    "text": "I will make divine magnetic lands,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With the love of comrades,",
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   {
    "text": "With the life-long love of comrades.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,",
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   {
    "text": "I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other’s necks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By the love of comrades,",
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   {
    "text": "By the manly love of comrades.",
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   {
    "text": "For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For you, for you I am trilling these songs.",
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