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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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    "text": "The citizens of London West",
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    "text": "Their patience oft is put to test",
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   {
    "text": "When they behold the various dams",
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   {
    "text": "Do cause the floods and the ice jams.",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis true that fiercer rages floods",
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   {
    "text": "Since country it was stript of woods,",
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    "text": "Acid river it doth broader spread",
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    "text": "If they did raise embankment high",
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    "text": "They might the raging floods defy.",
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   {
    "text": "Shall they with sadness gaze ever,",
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   {
    "text": "Or with gladness on the river?",
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    "text": "River with dams it will not wed,",
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    "text": "It wants no strangers in its bed,",
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    "text": "And ’gainst them it will rage and fret",
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    "text": "For ’tis no gentle rivulet.",
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