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 "title": "A Concert⁠—Impromptu",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "year": 1884,
  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
  "note": "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": "To us it is a pleasing sight,",
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   {
    "text": "To see so many here to night;",
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   {
    "text": "All listening with so much delight",
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   {
    "text": "Unto those worthy men of might",
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   {
    "text": "The charming songsters, Brothers White.",
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   {
    "text": "Gardner told a sad tale of woe,",
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   {
    "text": "How he was oft o’erwhelmed in snow;",
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    "text": "But was he frightened? no! no!! no!!!",
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   {
    "text": "He onward cheerfully did go,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And though that he did freeze his cheek",
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   {
    "text": "The fire side he did never seek.",
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   {
    "text": "But straight went onward, in his course,",
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   {
    "text": "So happy, driving his good horse,",
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   {
    "text": "And merrily along the way",
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    "text": "The bells did ring around his sleigh.",
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