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 "id": "james-mcintyre/holland-river-and-its-tributaries",
 "title": "Holland River and Its Tributaries",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "sequence": 13,
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
   "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": "We love to sing of tiny stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Through the lowland meadows running,",
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   {
    "text": "To us it is a pleasing theme,",
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   {
    "text": "Tracing it from first beginning.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "’Tis strange how far a brook will roam,",
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   {
    "text": "Moving onwards in its motion,",
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   {
    "text": "And not content till it reaches home,",
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    "text": "Two thousand miles to distant ocean.",
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   {
    "text": "In county York springs a small brook,",
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   {
    "text": "A few miles north of Ontario,",
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    "text": "But it doth take a wondrous crook,",
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    "text": "It northward many miles doth flow.",
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   {
    "text": "Brook’s progress south is stopped by ridge,",
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    "text": "Doth debar its southern course,",
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    "text": "So a long journey it don’t grudge,",
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    "text": "But slowly on its way doth force.",
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    "text": "And it discharges at its mouth",
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    "text": "Into the pure clear lake Simcoe,",
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   {
    "text": "It still flows north for to get south,",
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    "text": "As onward still its course doth go.",
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    "text": "Rejoicing along its way,",
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    "text": "Hundreds of miles it doth flow west,",
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    "text": "Blended in the Georgian Bay,",
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   {
    "text": "For a moment it doth not rest.",
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    "text": "Mingling with Huron and St. Clair,",
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   {
    "text": "Erie and Niagara river,",
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   {
    "text": "Even at the Falls it don’t despair,",
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    "text": "But it cheerful flows forever.",
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    "text": "One thousand miles round an ox bow,",
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    "text": "It hath flowed back near its first start,",
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    "text": "To waters of Ontario,",
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   {
    "text": "Where ridge at first kept it apart.",
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   {
    "text": "From south of ridge two rivers flow,",
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   {
    "text": "Both the Don and the Humber,",
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   {
    "text": "Embracing city of Toronto,",
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    "text": "Hath attractions without number.",
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    "text": "The fame will spread far and wide,",
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    "text": "First of Don and then of Humber,",
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   {
    "text": "Improved rivers like to the Clyde,",
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    "text": "With wharves for coal, wood, iron and lumber.",
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