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 "title": "On Journeys Through the States",
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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": "On journeys through the States we start,",
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   {
    "text": "(Ay through the world, urged by these songs,",
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   {
    "text": "Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,)",
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   {
    "text": "We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.",
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   {
    "text": "We have watch’d the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?",
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    "text": "We dwell a while in every city and town,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We confer on equal terms with each of the States,",
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   {
    "text": "We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,",
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    "text": "Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,",
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   {
    "text": "And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,",
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    "text": "And may be just as much as the seasons.",
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