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 "id": "james-mcintyre/decoration-day",
 "title": "Decoration Day",
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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": "This is the opening dedication",
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   {
    "text": "Of annual day of decoration,",
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   {
    "text": "And thus each year will brothers meet",
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    "text": "To shed the bloom and perfume sweet;",
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   {
    "text": "For they will have a noble aim",
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   {
    "text": "In meeting on the banks of Thame.",
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    "text": "In the States they decorate grave",
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    "text": "Of each departed soldier brave,",
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   {
    "text": "But here in Ontario West",
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   {
    "text": "We decorate where brothers rest,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though some are unknown to fame",
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   {
    "text": "They peaceful rest on banks of Thame.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "No more their grave is place of gloom,",
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    "text": "But scene of fragrance and bloom;",
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   {
    "text": "No more the tomb is dismal cave",
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   {
    "text": "For flowers each year will o’er it wave;",
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   {
    "text": "In sweet remembrance each name",
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   {
    "text": "Will live beside the silver Thame.",
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    "text": "Flowers here will shed their rich perfume",
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    "text": "And thus dispel the dismal gloom;",
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   {
    "text": "Departed’s memory we cherish,",
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   {
    "text": "And their names shall never perish,",
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   {
    "text": "While doth flow the pleasant stream",
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   {
    "text": "O’er pebbly bed, the crystal Thame.",
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