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 "title": "American Poets",
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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)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Like fruit that’s large and ripe and mellow,",
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   {
    "text": "Sweet and luscious is Longfellow,",
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   {
    "text": "Melodious songs he oft did pour",
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   {
    "text": "And high was his Excelsior.",
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   {
    "text": "He shows in his Psalm of Life",
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   {
    "text": "The folly of our selfish strife,",
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   {
    "text": "With Hiawatha we bewail",
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    "text": "His suffering in great Indian tale.",
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   {
    "text": "Indian nation was forlorn",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till great spirit planted corn;",
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   {
    "text": "His story of Evangeline",
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   {
    "text": "It is a tale of love divine.",
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   {
    "text": "A great enchanter too is Poe,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His bells do so harmonious flow,",
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   {
    "text": "Wondrous mystery of his raven",
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   {
    "text": "On our minds is ’ere engraven,",
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    "text": "His weird, wonderful romances",
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    "text": "Imagination oft entrances.",
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    "text": "With pleasure we would love to dwell",
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    "text": "On the charming themes of Lowell.",
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    "text": "Some in front rank will defiant,",
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    "text": "Boldly place the poet Bryant.",
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    "text": "Others seek for music in the twitter",
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   {
    "text": "Of the sweet, charming notes of Whittier.",
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    "text": "The mind that’s sad it doth relax",
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    "text": "The humor of the witty Saxe,",
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    "text": "He puts us in a cheerful mood,",
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    "text": "Mirthful as our own Tom Hood.",
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    "text": "In homely apparel one",
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    "text": "Clothes farming songs Will Carleton,",
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    "text": "But they have a manly ring",
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   {
    "text": "And we his praises hearty sing.",
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    "text": "And Millar poet of Sierras,",
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    "text": "For bold deeds he doth prepare us,",
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    "text": "And now he lives by the golden gate,",
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    "text": "Honored in California’s state,",
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    "text": "To poet ’tis position grand,",
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    "text": "Commissioner of Forest land.",
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    "text": "O’er flowery fields full oft he roams,",
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    "text": "The learned and pleasing genial Holmes.",
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    "text": "For erratic style he leads van,",
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    "text": "Wildly wayward Walt Whitman,",
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   {
    "text": "He done grand work in civil war,",
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    "text": "For he did dress many a scar,",
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   {
    "text": "And kindly wet the hot parched mouth",
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    "text": "Of Northern soldiers wounded South.",
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