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 "title": "O Living Always, Always Dying",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 246,
 "container": "Whispers of Heavenly Death",
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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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  "sources": [
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  "file": "whispers-of-heavenly-death.xhtml",
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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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 "verification": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "O living always, always dying!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O the burials of me past and present,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.",
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