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 "title": "Address to the Scottish Clans at Woodstock",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "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": "Scotia’s Sons! We love to meet thee,",
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   {
    "text": "And with hearty feelings greet thee;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You have come in a right good flock",
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   {
    "text": "To this progressive town, Woodstock.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And Scottish clans, noble order,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here they meet from o’er the border;",
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   {
    "text": "From greatest of Republics, south,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That vast land of wondrous growth.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "We will not call them foreign nation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For they are our own blood relation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And this gathering all so grand",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is welcomed by Clan Sutherland.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "The Highland men of Illinois,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Tn our old age increased our joys,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Making us an honorary member,",
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   {
    "text": "Their kindness we will e’er remember.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And may you often meet together,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From land of whin and broom and heather;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wallace, and Bruce, and Burns, and Scott,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Are names should never be forgot.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And Zorra’s fame is heard afar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Victorious in each tug of war;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All loved the little boys and girls",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In Highland dress and waving curls.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "And you have chose Canadian",
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   {
    "text": "For the chief of your Royal Clan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you will find that Sutherland,",
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   {
    "text": "Is one who ably will command.",
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