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 "title": "Spirit That Form’d This Scene",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "From Noon to Starry Night",
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  "year": 1881,
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Spirit that form’d this scene,",
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    "text": "These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,",
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   {
    "text": "These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These gorges, turbulent-clear streams, this naked freshness,",
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   {
    "text": "These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their own,",
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   {
    "text": "I know thee, savage spirit⁠—we have communed together,",
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   {
    "text": "Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was’t charged against my chants they had forgotten art?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The lyrist’s measur’d beat, the wrought-out temple’s grace⁠—column and polish’d arch forgot?",
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   {
    "text": "But thou that revelest here⁠—spirit that form’d this scene,",
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   {
    "text": "They have remember’d thee.",
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