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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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    "text": "DeArcy McGee,",
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   {
    "text": "All compliment thee,",
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   {
    "text": "The hope of the land",
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    "text": "On your lecture so grand.",
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    "text": "Though that is your forte,",
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    "text": "Oh give us the sport",
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    "text": "Of an hour of your chat,",
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    "text": "For none but the vile",
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    "text": "Could ’ere cease to smile,",
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    "text": "When near to thee",
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    "text": "Plant of green Erin’s isle,",
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    "text": "Long in Canadian soil,",
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    "text": "Alas he is slain,",
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