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 "title": "Canada’s Future",
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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": "Canada is a young giant,",
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   {
    "text": "Has not yet acquired its strength,",
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   {
    "text": "On the arts of peace reliant,",
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    "text": "Throughout its vast breadth and length.",
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    "text": "Though ’tis not famed for orange bowers",
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    "text": "Nor for the products of its vines,",
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   {
    "text": "Though other lands have fairer flowers,",
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    "text": "Yet it to nobler gifts inclines.",
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   {
    "text": "It doth produce the golden grain",
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   {
    "text": "And few lands can with it compete,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They often try but all in vain",
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   {
    "text": "To produce such splendid wheat.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Our geologists divine,",
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   {
    "text": "That ere long we will behold",
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    "text": "Many a rich glittering mine",
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    "text": "Of copper, silver and of gold.",
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    "text": "But we sing more glorious theme,",
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   {
    "text": "It is our verdant pasture land,",
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    "text": "Where cows produce a flood of cream,",
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    "text": "Doth make cheese of the finest brand.",
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    "text": "And great thoughts oftentimes awakes",
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    "text": "When we reflect on this wondrous land,",
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    "text": "With vast rivers and mighty lakes,",
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    "text": "All nature here’s on scale so grand.",
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    "text": "Young Dominion so gigantic,",
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    "text": "Where rail cars run at speed terrific,",
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    "text": "Thousands of miles from the Atlantic,",
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    "text": "Till in the West you reach Pacific.",
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  ],
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    "text": "From balmy breezes of lake Erie",
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    "text": "To the far north frozen ocean,",
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    "text": "Where it now seems lone and dreary,",
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   {
    "text": "All will yet be life and motion.",
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    "text": "Though nation’s young its powerful fleet",
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    "text": "Doth sail on many a distant sea,",
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   {
    "text": "For world’s commerce to compete",
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    "text": "Her sails in all climes flowing free.",
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