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 "title": "The Prairie-Grass Dividing",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing,",
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   {
    "text": "I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,",
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   {
    "text": "Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,",
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   {
    "text": "Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,",
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   {
    "text": "Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,",
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   {
    "text": "Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,",
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    "text": "Those with a never-quell’d audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,",
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    "text": "Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?",
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   {
    "text": "Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain’d, never obedient,",
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   {
    "text": "Those of inland America.",
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