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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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    "text": "Now finalè to the shore,",
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   {
    "text": "Now land and life finalè and farewell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now Voyager depart, (much, much for thee is yet in store,)",
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   {
    "text": "Often enough hast thou adventur’d o’er the seas,",
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    "text": "Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,",
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    "text": "Duly again to port and hawser’s tie returning;",
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   {
    "text": "But now obey thy cherish’d secret wish,",
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   {
    "text": "Embrace thy friends, leave all in order,",
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   {
    "text": "To port and hawser’s tie no more returning,",
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   {
    "text": "Depart upon thy endless cruise old Sailor.",
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