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 "title": "To a Historian",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "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": "You who celebrate bygones,",
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    "text": "Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life that has exhibited itself,",
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    "text": "Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,",
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    "text": "I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself in his own rights,",
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   {
    "text": "Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great pride of man in himself,)",
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   {
    "text": "Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,",
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    "text": "I project the history of the future.",
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