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  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the Whitman Archive transcription of the 1867 Chapin edition (ppp.00473). 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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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Word over all, beautiful as the sky,",
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   {
    "text": "Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world;",
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   {
    "text": "For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead,",
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   {
    "text": "I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin⁠—I draw near,",
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   {
    "text": "Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.",
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