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 "id": "james-mcintyre/canadas-resources",
 "title": "Canada’s Resources",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "Small Scotland nobly held its own",
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   {
    "text": "Against the might of England’s throne,",
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   {
    "text": "And shall this land with its vast bounds",
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    "text": "Shrink with fear ere the trumpet sounds.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "While British blood doth course each vein,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Proudly this heritage maintain,",
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   {
    "text": "With fertile acres by the billions,",
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   {
    "text": "Future homes for two hundred millions.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Each son could have a fertile farm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Brave men who ne’er will feel alarm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And they have both the nerve and skill",
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   {
    "text": "To work land with a right good will.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And she has got within her shores",
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    "text": "Renowned mines of many ores,",
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    "text": "While her furnaces and forges",
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    "text": "Iron in useful shape disgorges.",
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   {
    "text": "Her mighty forests they do yield",
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   {
    "text": "Lumber, her cities for to build,",
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   {
    "text": "But her wealth is not in these alone,",
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   {
    "text": "She has great quarries too of stone.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Industry it here doth bloom,",
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   {
    "text": "And skilful webs come from each loom,",
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   {
    "text": "One of great nations under sun,",
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   {
    "text": "A mightier race it yet will run.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "For with the Anglo-Saxon race",
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   {
    "text": "No other people can keep pace,",
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   {
    "text": "Here they have room for to expand",
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   {
    "text": "Into a nation mighty grand.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "With great railroads and canals,",
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   {
    "text": "And care in legislative halls,",
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   {
    "text": "A mighty future she will gain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And highest rank she will obtain.",
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   {
    "text": "Canada hopes it will be told,",
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   {
    "text": "That she hath patriots brave and bold,",
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   {
    "text": "To guide her helm shall be extolled,",
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   {
    "text": "As loving country more than gold.",
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