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 "id": "james-mcintyre/lines-on-canadian-hunter",
 "title": "Lines on Canadian Hunter",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1884,
  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_09542"
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  "repo": "standardebooks/james-mcintyre_poetry",
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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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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "Of Kentucky’s great hunter bold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Old Daniel Boone oft tales are told,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of wild beasts he had no fear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But dangers loved that pioneer.",
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   }
  ],
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    "text": "Canada has hunters many,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet perhaps there is not any",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For skill and boldness can compare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With our own Daniel Hebner.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In youth he was both tall and strong,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And supple as a willow thong,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He never fled from savage bear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though bruin on hind legs would rear.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "In hunting mink, or fox or coon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He was a second Daniel Boone,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His rifle oft brought down the deer,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which to his table brought good cheer.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But through his life his highest aim",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Was to kill the savage game,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To track the wild cat to its lair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And see its eyes so fiercely glare.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But he oft longs for a cut ham,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Sweet as from bear near to Putnam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For he waged his fiercest war",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In big swamp of Dorchester.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Now in the winter Dan he rides",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Warm ’mong his bear and coon skin hides,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He lets the younger men now snare",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The beaver, muskrat and otter.",
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   }
  ]
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