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		<title>Song of Myself (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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		<title>I Hear America Singing</title>
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		<title>When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whitman’s Lincoln elegy braids lilac, star, and thrush into a ritual of grief and renewal in free verse.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walt Whitman</title>
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