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 "title": "I Hear It Was Charged Against Me",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 62,
 "container": "Calamus",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1860–61 scan. 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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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,",
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   {
    "text": "But really I am neither for nor against institutions,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(What indeed have I in common with them? or what with the destruction of them?)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The institution of the dear love of comrades.",
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