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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Whispers of Heavenly Death",
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  "year": 1860,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Boston, 1860–61)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "What ship puzzled at sea, cons for the true reckoning?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here, sailor! here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.",
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