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 "title": "To the States",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,",
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    "text": "Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,",
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    "text": "Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.",
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