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 "title": "O Hymen! O Hymenee!",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 36,
 "container": "Children of Adam",
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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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O why sting me for a swift moment only?",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?",
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   }
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