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 "title": "Fight of a Buffalo with Wolves",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "year": 1884,
  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "A buffalo, lord of the plain,",
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    "text": "With massive neck and mighty mane,",
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    "text": "While from his herd he slowly strays,",
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   {
    "text": "He on green herbage calm doth graze,",
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   {
    "text": "And when at last he lifts his eyes",
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    "text": "A savage wolf he soon espies,",
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    "text": "But scarcely deigns to turn his head",
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    "text": "For it inspires him with no dread,",
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   {
    "text": "He knows the wolf is treacherous foe",
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   {
    "text": "But feels he soon could lay him low,",
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   {
    "text": "A moment more and there’s a pair",
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   {
    "text": "Whose savage eyes do on him glare,",
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   {
    "text": "But with contempt them both he scorns",
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    "text": "Unworthy of his powerful horns;",
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    "text": "Their numbers soon do multiply",
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    "text": "But the whole pack he doth defy,",
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    "text": "He could bound quickly o’er the plain",
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    "text": "And his own herd could soon regain;",
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    "text": "His foes they now are full a score",
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   {
    "text": "With lolling tongues pant for his gore,",
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   {
    "text": "He hears their teeth all loudly gnash",
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   {
    "text": "So eager his big bones to crash,",
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   {
    "text": "On every side they him infest,",
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    "text": "The north, the south, the east, the west",
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   {
    "text": "Fierce rage doth now gleam from his eye,",
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   {
    "text": "Resolved to conquer or to die,",
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   {
    "text": "’Round him they yelp and howl and growl,",
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   {
    "text": "He glares on them with angry scowl,",
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   {
    "text": "They circle closer him around,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He roars and springs with mighty bound,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of his powers gives ample proof,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Felling them with horn and hoof,",
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   {
    "text": "Though some lay dead upon the plain,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet their attack was not in vain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For they have tasted of his blood,",
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   {
    "text": "Resolved it soon shall pour a flood,",
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   {
    "text": "He feels that they have torn his hide",
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    "text": "And streams gush from each limb and side,",
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    "text": "He rushes on them in despair",
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    "text": "And tosses them full high in air,",
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    "text": "But others rush on him and pull",
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    "text": "Down to the earth that glorious bull;",
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    "text": "On the flesh of this noble beast",
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   {
    "text": "Their bloody jaws they soon do feast,",
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    "text": "Full worthy of a better fate",
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    "text": "Far from his herd and his dear mate,",
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   {
    "text": "Who now do look for him in vain",
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   {
    "text": "His bones do whiten now the plain.",
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