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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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   {
    "text": "Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,)",
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   {
    "text": "But add, fuse, complete, extend⁠—and celebrate the immortal and the good.",
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    "text": "Haughty this song, its words and scope,",
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    "text": "To span vast realms of space and time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Evolution⁠—the cumulative⁠—growths and generations.",
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    "text": "Begun in ripen’d youth and steadily pursued,",
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    "text": "Wandering, peering, dallying with all⁠—war, peace, day and night absorbing,",
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   {
    "text": "Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task,",
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   {
    "text": "I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.",
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   {
    "text": "I sing of life, yet mind me well of death:",
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   {
    "text": "To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years⁠—",
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    "text": "Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face.",
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