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 "title": "London Flood",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "year": 1884,
  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
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    "text": "From the long continuous rains",
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    "text": "O’erflowing were the swamps and drains,",
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    "text": "For each day had its heavy shower,",
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    "text": "Torrents fell for many an hour;",
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    "text": "At London where two branches join",
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   {
    "text": "It seem’d two furies did combine,",
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    "text": "For to spread far both death and woe,",
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    "text": "With their wild, raging overflow;",
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    "text": "E’en houses did on waters float,",
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    "text": "As though each had been built for boat,",
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    "text": "And where was wealth and joy and bloom,",
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    "text": "Soon naught but inmates of the tomb;",
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   {
    "text": "Flood o’erflowed both vale and ridges,",
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    "text": "And swept railroads, dams and bridges,",
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    "text": "A mother climbed in tree to save",
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    "text": "Her infant from a watery grave,",
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    "text": "But on the house you saw its blood",
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    "text": "Where it was crushed ’gainst tree by flood;",
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    "text": "Where cottages ’mong gardens stood",
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    "text": "’Tis covered o’er with vile drift wood,",
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    "text": "O’er flowers and bushes you may travel",
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    "text": "For they are buried under gravel,",
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    "text": "Or you may walk o’er barren sand,",
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    "text": "The crops washed out and fertile land;",
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   {
    "text": "Two funerals we at once did see",
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    "text": "Of one family who lost three;",
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    "text": "No longer river’s deep and wide",
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    "text": "But gently flows to distant tide.",
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