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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Of ownership⁠—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;",
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   {
    "text": "Of vista⁠—suppose some sight in arrière through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fullness, life, now attain’d on the journey,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied⁠—and of what will yet be supplied,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.",
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