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 "title": "Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City",
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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": "Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions,",
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    "text": "Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain’d me for love of me,",
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   {
    "text": "Day by day and night by night we were together⁠—all else has long been forgotten by me,",
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   {
    "text": "I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again we wander, we love, we separate again,",
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   {
    "text": "Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,",
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   {
    "text": "I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.",
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