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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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    "text": "A hawk while soaring on the wing,",
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    "text": "And though the hawk was bent on slaughter",
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    "text": "In the Township of Nissouri,",
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    "text": "There the hawk it came to sorrow,",
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    "text": "But it strove often for to sink,",
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    "text": "But mink it did successful balk,",
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    "text": "The bird was drenched, it could not fly,",
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    "text": "And ne’er again it soared on high.",
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