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 "title": "James Hogg",
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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)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "The wondrous shepherd James Hogg",
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   {
    "text": "Was happy with his good sheep dog,",
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   {
    "text": "Meditating o’er his sweet lays",
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   {
    "text": "While his fleecy flocks did graze.",
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   {
    "text": "His education it came late",
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   {
    "text": "After he reached to man’s estate,",
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   {
    "text": "While his flocks were busy feeding",
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    "text": "His favourite authors he was reading.",
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    "text": "Wondrous tales he did rehearse",
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   {
    "text": "Of witches both in prose and verse,",
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   {
    "text": "And he in fairy tales did glory",
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   },
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    "text": "Traditions of each shepherd’s story.",
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   {
    "text": "The shepherd he sang late and early",
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   {
    "text": "Of the deeds of bold Prince Charley,",
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   {
    "text": "And how the charming bonnie Flora",
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    "text": "Soothed the Prince when in his sorrow.",
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    "text": "Few songs possess so much vigor",
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   {
    "text": "As his gathering of McGregor,",
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   {
    "text": "The lover’s heart is all aflame",
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   {
    "text": "To meet lassie when the kye comes hame.",
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    "text": "But one who loved the shepherd’s songs",
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    "text": "And sang them unto countless throngs,",
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   {
    "text": "Great Kennedy has passed away",
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   {
    "text": "Now mournful is our Scottish lay.",
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