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 "title": "Baby Darling",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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    "text": "A miner in California mine,",
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    "text": "For his distant home he did repine,",
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    "text": "In a far off Eastern state,",
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    "text": "Where did live his own dear mate.",
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    "text": "And one great source of all his joy,",
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   {
    "text": "His little darling baby boy,",
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    "text": "One night to drive his cares away",
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    "text": "To concert hall his footsteps stray.",
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    "text": "And loud resounding o’er the hall,",
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    "text": "He heard a little boy squall,",
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    "text": "The sweetest music he e’er heard,",
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    "text": "Sweeter far than singing bird.",
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    "text": "For his thoughts it caused to roam,",
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    "text": "To his distant eastern home,",
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    "text": "Near to the mine there were no trace",
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    "text": "Of baby dear or woman’s face.",
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    "text": "When violinist with his bow",
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    "text": "Did make exquisite music flow,",
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    "text": "The miner he did loudly bawl",
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    "text": "Stop fiddle and let baby squall.",
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    "text": "My sad heart his cries doth cheer,",
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    "text": "Reminding me of my own dear,",
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    "text": "For sooner I would him behold,",
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    "text": "Than if I found a mine of gold.",
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    "text": "For what are all the joys of life,",
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    "text": "So far away from child and wife,",
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    "text": "But few more months I will stay here",
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    "text": "Then join my wife and baby dear.",
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