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 "title": "Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Drum-Taps",
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  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1865 Drum-Taps 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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Be not dishearten’d, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those who love each other shall become invincible,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They shall yet make Columbia victorious.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sons of the Mother of All, you shall yet be victorious,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth.",
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   }
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  [
   {
    "text": "No danger shall balk Columbia’s lovers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "One from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian’s comrade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come,",
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   {
    "text": "Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.",
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   {
    "text": "These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! with the love of lovers tie you.",
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   {
    "text": "(Were you looking to be held together by lawyers?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)",
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