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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Songs of Parting",
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  "year": 1881,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1881–82)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1881–82 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/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere,",
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   {
    "text": "The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People,",
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   {
    "text": "(Full well they know that message in the darkness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad reverberations,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The passionate toll and clang⁠—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.",
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