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 "title": "Horace Greely and Mrs. Staunton",
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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)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   {
    "text": "During the late great civil war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which did the Grand Republic jar",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From its circumference to its centre,",
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   {
    "text": "The grand old mnn he did venture.",
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   {
    "text": "While chatting with a lady freely,",
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   {
    "text": "I demand, said Horace Greely,",
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   {
    "text": "And do not think my question wanton,",
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    "text": "But answer me, Mrs. Staunton,",
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   {
    "text": "Would you go South and fight to quell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those bold men who do rebel;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If you got woman’s suffrage,",
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   {
    "text": "Would you in deadly war engage.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Our country now wants every man,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of women too all we can;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Each to shoulder trusty rifle,",
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   {
    "text": "So South with us no more may trifle.",
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   {
    "text": "You’re champion of woman’s rights,",
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    "text": "And should take part like men in flights;",
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   {
    "text": "Said she, I never could delight,",
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   {
    "text": "To slay a man in bloody fight.",
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   {
    "text": "So my fair hands I’ll not imbue,",
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   {
    "text": "But I will stay at home like you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And urge the others on to war,",
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   {
    "text": "And keep from battle field afar.",
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    "text": "But Mistress Staunton she was really",
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   {
    "text": "More robust than Horace Greely;",
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   {
    "text": "And she possessed a noble form,",
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   {
    "text": "And even now would face the storm.",
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