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 "title": "Fair Day at Embro",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Of Scottish names a great array",
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   {
    "text": "We meet at Erabro on Fair Day;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "McDonald, McKenzie and McKay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Murray, Ross and Sutherland,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Munroes round you stand.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Your lassies worthy of our song,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And youth are famed for muscle strong",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For they can pull both hard and long;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And their fame is heard afar.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Victorious in each tug of war.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "But these battles bring no sorrow",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the hardy youth of Zorra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And no tears to eyes of Flora;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They are not deadly tugs of war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And they leave no wounds nor scar.",
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