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 "title": "Lines on Gunn",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "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.",
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  "sources": [
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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": "My dear friend Gunn,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May you prize won,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But to us hark",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When you shoot mark,",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "High you must aim",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at right game,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And truth employ",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wrong to destroy.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Your friend the Bard",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hopes your reward",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Will be furriore",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For Courier.",
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   }
  ]
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}