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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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  "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": "We two boys together clinging,",
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    "text": "One the other never leaving,",
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    "text": "Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,",
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    "text": "Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,",
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   {
    "text": "Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,",
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   {
    "text": "Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,",
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   {
    "text": "Fulfilling our foray.",
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