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 "title": "Leach the Engineer",
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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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  "sources": [
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "The engineer who drives the train,",
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   {
    "text": "From scalds he oft doth suffer pain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And they are more noble scars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than hirelings gain in foreign wars.",
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   {
    "text": "Our hero’s name should live forever,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Train wrecked in Columbia River,",
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   {
    "text": "And fatal scalded was Frank Leach,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In mid the river far from beach.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Heroic deed it should be sung.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though his flesh in ribbons hung,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He saw a man who could not swim,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And he resolved to rescue him.",
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   {
    "text": "And success his efforts crowned,",
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   {
    "text": "He saved the man from being drowned,",
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   {
    "text": "For him upon his back he bore,",
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    "text": "And boldly swam with him to shore.",
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   {
    "text": "Heroic deed we now enroll,",
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   {
    "text": "And grave it deep on fame’s scroll,",
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   {
    "text": "For this great truth we wish to teach,",
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   {
    "text": "High ’mong our heroes ranks Frank Leach.",
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   {
    "text": "When he had but short time to live,",
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    "text": "His strength and skill he both did give,",
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    "text": "His poor fellow man to save,",
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   {
    "text": "From laying in a watery grave.",
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   {
    "text": "The heroes oft in days of old,",
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   {
    "text": "Were those who hired to fight for gold,",
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   {
    "text": "But the true heroes we revere",
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   {
    "text": "Doth fight for home and country dear.",
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