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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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    "text": "At great reunion of the South,",
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   {
    "text": "Of those had faced the cannon’s mouth,",
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   {
    "text": "Where each could show a glorious scar",
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    "text": "He had received in the war.",
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    "text": "And there was an artillery major,",
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    "text": "Said he, I am free to wager",
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    "text": "I fired the best shot in the war,",
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    "text": "And fame of it was heard afar.",
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    "text": "The Federals fired at us a shell,",
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   {
    "text": "And near our battery it fell,",
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   {
    "text": "It gave us momentary alarm,",
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    "text": "But it caused us little harm.",
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    "text": "For the fuse it ceased to burn,",
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    "text": "And I resolved shell to return",
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    "text": "To the same spot from whence it came,",
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    "text": "I put in fuse was sure to flame.",
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    "text": "From mortar’s mouth it went forth",
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    "text": "Seeking for vengeance on the North,",
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    "text": "And this swift messenger from South",
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    "text": "It entered their great cannon’s mouth.",
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    "text": "And blew the gun all into atoms,",
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    "text": "Which left desolate many homes,",
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    "text": "But North had justice on her side.",
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    "text": "In truth and virtue was her pride.",
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    "text": "And high Heaven had well decreed",
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    "text": "That the poor slave he should be freed,",
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    "text": "And even the South doth prosper more",
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    "text": "With freedom than she did before.",
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