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 "title": "Me Imperturbe",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,",
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   {
    "text": "Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,",
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   {
    "text": "Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.",
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