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 "title": "Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
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   {
    "text": "Rise O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,",
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   {
    "text": "Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour’d what the earth gave me,",
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   {
    "text": "Long I roam’d the woods of the north, long I watch’d Niagara pouring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I travel’d the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross’d the Nevadas, I cross’d the plateaus,",
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   {
    "text": "I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail’d out to sea,",
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   {
    "text": "I sail’d through the storm, I was refresh’d by the storm,",
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   {
    "text": "I watch’d with joy the threatening maws of the waves,",
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    "text": "I mark’d the white combs where they career’d so high, curling over,",
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   {
    "text": "I heard the wind piping, I saw the black clouds,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)",
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   {
    "text": "Heard the continuous thunder as it bellow’d after the lightning,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These, and such as these, I, elate, saw⁠—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,",
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   {
    "text": "All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious.",
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   {
    "text": "’Twas well, O soul⁠—’twas a good preparation you gave me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Not through the mighty woods we go, but through the mightier cities,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Something for us is pouring now more than Niagara pouring,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What, to passions I witness around me to-day? was the sea risen?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was the wind piping the pipe of death under the black clouds?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lo! from deeps more unfathomable, something more deadly and savage,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Manhattan rising, advancing with menacing front⁠—Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain’d;",
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   {
    "text": "What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what comes here,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How it climbs with daring feet and hands⁠—how it dashes!",
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   {
    "text": "How the true thunder bellows after the lightning⁠—how bright the flashes of lightning!",
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   {
    "text": "How Democracy with desperate vengeful port strides on, shown through the dark by those flashes of lightning!",
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   {
    "text": "(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In a lull of the deafening confusion.)",
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    "text": "Thunder on! stride on, Democracy! strike with vengeful stroke!",
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   {
    "text": "And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Crash heavier, heavier yet O storms! you have done me good,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long had I walk’d my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl’d on the ground before me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low;",
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   {
    "text": "The cities I loved so well I abandon’d and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature’s dauntlessness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I refresh’d myself with it only, I could relish it only,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire⁠—on the water and air I waited long;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But now I no longer wait, I am fully satisfied, I am glutted,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have witness’d the true lightning, I have witness’d my cities electric,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hence I will seek no more the food of the northern solitary wilds,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No more the mountains roam or sail the stormy sea.",
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