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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1867,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (New York, 1867)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the Whitman Archive transcription of the 1867 Chapin edition (ppp.00473). 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/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": "On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner,",
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   {
    "text": "He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,",
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   {
    "text": "With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais’d.",
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