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 "title": "Little Hero",
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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)",
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    "text": "’Mong silver hills of Nevada",
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    "text": "There is many a wild bravado,",
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    "text": "Who oft indulge in lawless vice,",
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    "text": "And there are pearls of great price.",
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    "text": "Rough hearts, but true at the core,",
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    "text": "There is the genuine silver ore,",
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    "text": "But it needs skill of the refiner",
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    "text": "To find pure gems in the miner.",
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    "text": "Far from their home two children stray,",
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    "text": "Among the mountains far away,",
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    "text": "The eldest of these travellers bold,",
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    "text": "Jack Smith he was but six years old.",
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    "text": "So far poor children went abroad,",
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    "text": "That both at last they lost their road,",
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    "text": "But their good dog the trusty Rover,",
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    "text": "By scent and search doth them discover.",
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    "text": "Their friends they search for them in vain,",
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    "text": "Dark night comes on and heavy rain;",
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    "text": "And savage wolves around them howl,",
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    "text": "But they fear Rover’s bark and growl.",
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    "text": "On the third day the searchers hark",
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    "text": "For sounds and they hear Rover’s bark,",
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    "text": "Joyous that boys were alive,",
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    "text": "And that though feeble they survive.",
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    "text": "Miners they left their silver ore,",
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    "text": "And for more precious pearls explore,",
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    "text": "And when the children they discover,",
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    "text": "’Tis unbounded then their pleasure.",
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    "text": "The eldest little hero bold",
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    "text": "Had stripped his coat to keep the cold",
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    "text": "From little brother three years old,",
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    "text": "A worthy deed should be extolled.",
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    "text": "From home they were many a league,",
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    "text": "And weak with hunger and fatigue,",
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    "text": "Each clung upon a miner’s back,",
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    "text": "On their way home down mountain track.",
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