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 "id": "walt-whitman/trickle-drops",
 "title": "Trickle Drops",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 56,
 "container": "Calamus",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1860–61 scan. The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whituoft"
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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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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Trickle drops! my blue veins leaving!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From wounds made to free you whence you were prison’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From my face, from my forehead and lips,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From my breast, from within where I was conceal’d, press forth red drops, confession drops,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.",
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   }
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