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 "title": "To the States",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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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": "Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?",
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   {
    "text": "What deepening twilight⁠—scum floating atop of the waters,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?",
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   {
    "text": "Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)",
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