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 "title": "That Shadow My Likeness",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Calamus",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1860–61 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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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whituoft"
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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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,",
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   {
    "text": "How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But among my lovers and caroling these songs,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O I never doubt whether that is really me.",
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