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 "id": "james-mcintyre/indian-romance",
 "title": "Indian Romance",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "We know a hill is smooth and round,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Indian relics may be found,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This hill it hath a history,",
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   {
    "text": "Though enveloped in mystery.",
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   {
    "text": "All the youth do fondly glory",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For to read an Indian story,",
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   {
    "text": "This hill was ancient camping ground,",
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   {
    "text": "In creek near by did trout abound.",
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   {
    "text": "And from hill top they caught a gleam",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of the river’s broader stream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They came in their birch bark canoes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into this place of rendezvous.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "When States did Canada invade,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Great Indian host was here arrayed,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here they rallied from near and far,",
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   {
    "text": "In eighteen hundred and twelve war.",
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   {
    "text": "Chief big Wolfe led them on to war,",
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   {
    "text": "And bade farewell to morning star,",
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   {
    "text": "He wedded her one year before,",
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   {
    "text": "And her he fondly did adore.",
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   {
    "text": "To him she never seemed so sweet,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Her dress had beads worked o’er so neat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And her toilet to complete,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grand moccasins upon her feet.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Tribe marches and they boldly fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Longside of Brock on Queenstown height,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With glory they do return crowned,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Into the hill so smooth and round.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here big Wolfe drank much fire water,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And it led to his own slaughter,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His death alas did blast and mar,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And dimmed the light of morning star.",
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