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 "id": "james-mcintyre/lines-on-thorold",
 "title": "Lines on Thorold",
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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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 "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.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Thorold is famous for its mills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the grand view from off its hills,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A view so charming and extended,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nature’s beauties sweetly blended.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Poetic thoughts it doth awake",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To view Ontario’s broad lake,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And husbandmen have their reward in",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fruits of this Provincial garden.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "For from the hill you see below",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gardens where choice fruits do grow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The landscape all within your reach",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Doth both produce the grape and peach.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "McCready said in the New World",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The finest view was from Thorold,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You see St. Catharines thriving town",
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   {
    "text": "And steamers sailing up and down.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And you can see on a clear day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "All along Toronto Bay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you clearly see the haze",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where Niagara doth amaze.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And glance where Grimsby’s gardens yield",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or view Beamsville’s fruitful field,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then this thought you can advance,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This is Canada’s sunny France.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "You see Niagara’s ancient town",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Though it has lost us old renown,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And you have a splendid view",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of boats on old canal and new.",
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