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 "title": "Savantism",
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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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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Thither as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,",
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   {
    "text": "Thither hours, months, years⁠—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute,",
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   {
    "text": "Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, persons, estates;",
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   {
    "text": "Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,",
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   {
    "text": "As a father to his father going takes his children along with him.",
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