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 "title": "Turn O Libertad",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1865,
  "venue": "Drum-Taps (New York, 1865)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the 1865 Drum-Taps 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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Turn O Libertad, for the war is over,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Turn from lands retrospective recording proofs of the past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the singers that sing the trailing glories of the past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the chants of the feudal world, the triumphs of kings, slavery, caste,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv’d and to come⁠—give up that backward world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Leave to the singers of hitherto, give them the trailing past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But what remains remains for singers for you⁠—wars to come are for you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then turn, and be not alarm’d O Libertad⁠—turn your undying face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To where the future, greater than all the past,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.",
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