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 "title": "Weave In, My Hardy Life",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 267,
 "container": "From Noon to Starry Night",
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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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  "file": "from-noon-to-starry-night.xhtml",
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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": {
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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    "text": "Weave in, weave in, my hardy life,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weave in red blood, weave sinews in like ropes, the senses, sight weave in,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(We know not what the use O life, nor know the aim, the end, nor really aught we know,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop’d march of peace as well as war goes on,)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For great campaigns of peace the same the wiry threads to weave,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "We know not why or what, yet weave, forever weave.",
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   }
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}