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 "title": "Brantford",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "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": "Brantford as thriving city’s famed,",
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   {
    "text": "And after Indian Chief is named,",
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   {
    "text": "And here the sparkling Grand River",
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   {
    "text": "It doth flow a joy forever.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Campbell he sang a dismal tale",
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   {
    "text": "Of horrors of Wyoming’s vale,",
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    "text": "The tale one’s mind doth ever haunt,",
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   {
    "text": "The cruelties of monster Brant.",
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    "text": "But the Chief’s son to England went",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Campbell to him did lament,",
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   {
    "text": "And all the tale he did recant",
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    "text": "About cruel butcheries of Brant.",
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   {
    "text": "Now pleasant thoughts it doth awake",
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   {
    "text": "When Brantford thinks of her namesake,",
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    "text": "She evermore with pride will chant",
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    "text": "The bold heroic name of Brant.",
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   {
    "text": "We sing of two great Indian names,",
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   {
    "text": "Tecumseh on the banks of Thames,",
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    "text": "And the Grand River it doth vaunt",
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    "text": "O’er the historic name of Brant.",
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    "text": "The city’s pride it doth find vent",
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   {
    "text": "In building him a monument,",
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   {
    "text": "And Indians will proudly stalk",
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   {
    "text": "Past memorial of great Mohawk.",
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