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 "title": "How Solemn as One by One",
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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": 1867,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (New York, 1867)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the Whitman Archive transcription of the 1867 Chapin edition (ppp.00473). The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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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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    "text": "How solemn as one by one,",
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   {
    "text": "As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying the masks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend, whoever you are,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul,",
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   {
    "text": "O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor the bayonet stab what you really are;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor the bayonet stab O friend.",
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