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 "title": "Thought",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;",
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    "text": "(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,",
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   {
    "text": "So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,",
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   {
    "text": "And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,",
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   {
    "text": "And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,",
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   {
    "text": "And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,",
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   {
    "text": "And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,",
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   {
    "text": "And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)",
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