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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Goodbye My Fancy",
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  "year": 1891,
  "venue": "Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "How dare one say it?",
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   {
    "text": "After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Vaunted Ionia’s, India’s⁠—Homer, Shakespeare⁠—the long, long times’ thick dotted roads, areas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars⁠—Nature’s pulses reap’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All retrospective passions, heroes, war, love, adoration,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All ages’ plummets dropt to their utmost depths,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All human lives, throats, wishes, brains⁠—all experiences’ utterance;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After the countless songs, or long or short, all tongues, all lands,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still something not yet told in poesy’s voice or print⁠—something lacking,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Who knows? the best yet unexpress’d and lacking.)",
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