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 "title": "Eagle and Salmon",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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    "text": "Wilmot of fish culture fame,",
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    "text": "To this tale he lends his name,",
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    "text": "A pair of eagles built their nest",
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    "text": "On a lofty pine tree’s crest.",
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    "text": "And therein they regular rear",
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    "text": "A brood of young year after year,",
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    "text": "One day he saw one leave its nest,",
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    "text": "When for food it was in quest.",
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    "text": "It did wing its flight on high,",
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    "text": "And then on water cast its eye,",
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    "text": "When it quickly did discover",
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    "text": "A great salmon in the river.",
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    "text": "Like lightning flash down it doth sweep",
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    "text": "And its talons it buries deep,",
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    "text": "In salmon of enormous size",
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    "text": "He trys to rise in air with prize.",
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    "text": "But all in vain he quickly found",
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    "text": "He could not carry thirty pound,",
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    "text": "And had bit more than he could chew",
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    "text": "For in the air no more he flew.",
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    "text": "Wilmot he did gaze with wonder",
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    "text": "At the spot where he went under,",
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    "text": "Resolved to know what was the matter",
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    "text": "He poled his boat o’er the water.",
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    "text": "And he looked down and there he found",
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    "text": "That the eagle it was drowned,",
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    "text": "And its wings in part outspread,",
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    "text": "But alas it was quite dead.",
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    "text": "With grappling hook he drew him out,",
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    "text": "But attached to him was monster trout,",
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    "text": "Eagle could not extract his claws,",
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    "text": "And this the death of both did cause.",
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