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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Goodbye My Fancy",
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  "venue": "Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Grand is the seen, the light, to me⁠—grand are the sky and stars,",
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   {
    "text": "Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;",
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   {
    "text": "But grander far the unseen soul of me, comprehending, endowing all those,",
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   {
    "text": "Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,",
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   {
    "text": "(What were all those, indeed, without thee, unseen soul? of what amount without thee?)",
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   {
    "text": "More evolutionary, vast, puzzling, O my soul!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More multiform far⁠—more lasting thou than they.",
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