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 "id": "walt-whitman/youth-day-old-age-and-night",
 "title": "Youth, Day, Old Age and Night",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "sequence": 93,
 "container": "A Song of the Rolling Earth",
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1856,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, 1856)",
  "note": "The 1855 scan also matches these four lines, inside a longer poem; this piece first matches as a whole in 1856. Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the Whitman Archive transcription of the 1856 Fowler & Wells edition (ppp.00237). 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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  ]
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  "file": "a-song-of-the-rolling-earth.xhtml",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Youth, large, lusty, loving⁠—youth full of grace, force, fascination,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Day full-blown and splendid⁠—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
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}