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  "year": 1888,
  "venue": "November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888)",
  "note": "Printed in “Sands at Seventy,” the verse section of November Boughs, and gathered into Leaves of Grass as the First Annex in 1891–92, which is the arrangement the corpus text follows. 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": "You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs,",
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   {
    "text": "And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You tokens diminute and lorn⁠—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom⁠—no grain of August now;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You pallid banner-staves⁠—you pennants valueless⁠—you overstay’d of time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The faithfulest⁠—hardiest⁠—last.",
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