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 "title": "One’s-Self I Sing",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1871,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Washington, 1871)",
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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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    "text": "One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Of physiology from top to toe I sing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Female equally with the Male I sing.",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The Modern Man I sing.",
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