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 "title": "Captain’s Adventure",
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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)",
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    "text": "Three years ago my vessel lay",
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    "text": "In a port of Hudson Bay,",
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    "text": "I started off for the trading post,",
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    "text": "But on the way back I then got lost.",
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    "text": "And the thought soon gave me the blues,",
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   {
    "text": "Trudging along on my snow shoes,",
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    "text": "Over the wastes of drifting snow,",
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    "text": "While the wind it did fiercely blow.",
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    "text": "I feared that I would be froze hard,",
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   {
    "text": "For it was a fearful blizzard,",
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   {
    "text": "I was growing faint and weary,",
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    "text": "Not the slightest hopes to cheer me.",
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    "text": "Without compass to bearing,",
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    "text": "My yells were beyond crews’ hearing,",
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    "text": "But at last to my loud halloo",
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    "text": "There came a mournful ho, ho.",
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    "text": "From creature white I thought ’twas ghost,",
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    "text": "And that I was forever lost,",
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    "text": "I heard horrid creature flutter,",
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    "text": "As it those strange sounds did utter.",
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    "text": "At last I found that all this howl",
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    "text": "Was from a noble large white owl,",
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    "text": "And a happy apparition,",
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    "text": "So runs the Indian tradition.",
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    "text": "It guides the lost one in distress",
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    "text": "And leads him out of wilderness,",
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    "text": "This strange bird I soon follow,",
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    "text": "And it still kept up its halloo.",
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    "text": "It seem’d that it cried to cheer me,",
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    "text": "I thought the ship was now near me,",
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    "text": "As I walked o’er the banks of snow",
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    "text": "I kept up a feeble halloo.",
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    "text": "And but a little ways beyond",
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    "text": "From my own crew I got respond,",
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    "text": "With joy I was received by crew,",
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    "text": "So happy all at my rescue.",
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    "text": "It must be that some gentle soul",
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    "text": "Did then inhabit that strange fowl,",
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    "text": "But O to me ’twas wondrous fair,",
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    "text": "For it thus saved me from despair.",
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    "text": "The man’s my foe who now doth growl",
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    "text": "At the strange sounds made by the owl,",
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    "text": "The sailors all they took delight",
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    "text": "To feed this bird so pure and white.",
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    "text": "But soon the poor bird was o’erfed,",
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    "text": "Early one morn we found it dead,",
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    "text": "And my breast it heaved with sighs,",
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    "text": "And the tears poured from mine eyes.",
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    "text": "But precious relic in glass case",
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    "text": "I oft gaze on its kindly face,",
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    "text": "And grateful memories it brings,",
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    "text": "When I behold its glorious wings.",
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    "text": "To stuff such birds I knew the art",
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    "text": "On it I worked with my whole heart,",
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    "text": "To preserve each grace and feature",
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    "text": "Full of charms to me is creature.",
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