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 "title": "Lines on the Finding of a Young Man’s Body in Toronto Bay",
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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)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "A young man’s body long it lay",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In bottom of Toronto Bay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But at last the waters bore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And raised him up near to the shore.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But no one knew his rank or station,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No one knew his home or nation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But his form and dress were genteel,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sorrow many they did feel.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Kind man took charge of the remains,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And was well rewarded for his pains,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So skilful he did him embalm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Restored the features sweet and calm.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The father came and he did bless",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The man who did restore the face,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And saved for him his son’s remains,",
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   {
    "text": "And thus he fame and honor gains.",
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