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 "id": "walt-whitman/the-last-invocation",
 "title": "The Last Invocation",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 250,
 "container": "Whispers of Heavenly Death",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1871,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Washington, 1871)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1871 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.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
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  "file": "whispers-of-heavenly-death.xhtml",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "At the last, tenderly,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "From the walls of the powerful fortress’d house,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the clasp of the knitted locks, from the keep of the well-closed doors,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let me be wafted.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Let me glide noiselessly forth;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With the key of softness unlock the locks⁠—with a whisper,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Set ope the doors O soul.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Tenderly⁠—be not impatient,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Strong is your hold O mortal flesh,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Strong is your hold O love.)",
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   }
  ]
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}