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 "title": "Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "From Noon to Starry Night",
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  "year": 1881,
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    "text": "Thou orb aloft full-dazzling! thou hot October noon!",
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   {
    "text": "Flooding with sheeny light the gray beach sand,",
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   {
    "text": "The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O sun of noon refulgent! my special word to thee.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Hear me illustrious!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy lover me, for always I have loved thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Even as basking babe, then happy boy alone by some wood edge, thy touching-distant beams enough,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my invocation.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "(Thou canst not with thy dumbness me deceive,",
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   {
    "text": "I know before the fitting man all Nature yields,",
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   {
    "text": "Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice⁠—and thou O sun,",
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    "text": "As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,",
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    "text": "I understand them, I know those flames, those perturbations well.)",
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    "text": "Thou that with fructifying heat and light,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er myriad farms, o’er lands and waters North and South,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er Mississippi’s endless course, o’er Texas’ grassy plains, Kanada’s woods,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er all the globe that turns its face to thee shining in space,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou that impartially infoldest all, not only continents, seas,",
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    "text": "Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Strike through these chants.",
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    "text": "Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,",
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   {
    "text": "Prepare the later afternoon of me myself⁠—prepare my lengthening shadows,",
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   {
    "text": "Prepare my starry nights.",
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