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 "title": "Canadian Voyageurs on the Nile",
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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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    "text": "The British soldiers on the Nile",
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   {
    "text": "With gratitude did kindly smile,",
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   {
    "text": "On the Canadian voyageurs",
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   {
    "text": "Who skilfully did ply their oars.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And they invoked their benison",
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   {
    "text": "On boatsmen led by Denison,",
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   {
    "text": "Neither the rapids nor the falls",
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   {
    "text": "Along the Nile these braves appals.",
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   {
    "text": "For in such toils they did partake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On each native stream and lake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thoughts of their homes in visions throng,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While singing Canadian boat song.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "And they all hoped again to see",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The glorious land of maple tree,",
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   {
    "text": "From their memories they never",
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    "text": "Forgot the land of lake and river.",
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    "text": "While up the Nile they do advance",
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   {
    "text": "They dream about their own St. Lawrence,",
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   {
    "text": "And Manitoba’s streams and lakes,",
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   {
    "text": "Pleasant reflections oft awakes.",
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   {
    "text": "And thus each day they cheerful toil,",
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   {
    "text": "Ascending of old Father Nile,",
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    "text": "Whose waters fertilize the soil,",
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    "text": "And is the home of crocodile.",
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   {
    "text": "Wolseley he had exhibition",
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   {
    "text": "In Red River expedition,",
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   {
    "text": "How these voyageurs could steer,",
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   {
    "text": "Or with the axe a roadway clear.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Those who speak the tongue of France,",
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   {
    "text": "From the banks of the St. Lawrence,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At call to arms quick advance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With rifle, bayonet and lance.",
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