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 "title": "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Drum-Taps",
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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": "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,",
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   {
    "text": "Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me for marriage a sweet-breath’d woman of whom I should never tire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life,",
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   {
    "text": "Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!",
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   {
    "text": "These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack’d by the war-strife,)",
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   {
    "text": "These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,",
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   {
    "text": "Where you hold me enchain’d a certain time refusing to give me up,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich’d of soul, you give me forever faces;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,",
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   },
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    "text": "I see my own soul trampling down what it ask’d for.)",
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    "text": "Keep your splendid silent sun,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Keep the blossoming buckwheat fields where the Ninth-month bees hum;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me faces and streets⁠—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me interminable eyes⁠—give me women⁠—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let me see new ones every day⁠—let me hold new ones by the hand every day!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me such shows⁠—give me the streets of Manhattan!",
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   },
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    "text": "Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching⁠—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!",
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   {
    "text": "(The soldiers in companies or regiments⁠—some starting away, flush’d and reckless,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Some, their time up, returning with thinn’d ranks, young, yet very old, worn, marching, noticing nothing;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!",
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   {
    "text": "O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The life of the theatre, bar-room, huge hotel, for me!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!",
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   {
    "text": "The dense brigade bound for the war, with high piled military wagons following;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "People, endless, streaming, with strong voices, passions, pageants,",
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   {
    "text": "Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now,",
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   {
    "text": "The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)",
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   {
    "text": "Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus!",
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   {
    "text": "Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.",
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