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 "title": "Crimean War",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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    "text": "When the British Lion offered aid to the Turk,",
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   {
    "text": "Round many lips a sneer of serious doubt did lurk,",
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   {
    "text": "They said he was at home on sea, but when on land",
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   {
    "text": "He would be as a ship wrecked upon the strand,",
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    "text": "Or like some huge ungainly crocodile",
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    "text": "Upon the marshy banks of sluggish Nile,",
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    "text": "Who could move gaily on the deep",
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    "text": "But on dry land could scarcely creep,",
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    "text": "But up the Alma heights he rushed like greyhound after hare,",
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   {
    "text": "And in a moment by the throat he seized the Russian bear,",
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    "text": "Which begged so hard for mercy his life he did it spare,",
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    "text": "And closely now it is confined within its native lair,",
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    "text": "For its strong fortress of Sebastpol",
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    "text": "Was forced to submit to Great Britain’s rule.",
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