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 "title": "To a Stranger",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Calamus",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All is recall’d as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I am to see to it that I do not lose you.",
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