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 "title": "Masonic Lines Read at a Banquet",
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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)",
  "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": "Craft of King Hiram and St. John,",
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   {
    "text": "They figurative work on stone,",
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   {
    "text": "King Hiram he is the old sire",
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    "text": "And he was famous King of Tyre.",
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    "text": "But great as King upon a throne",
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   {
    "text": "Is the good, kind, true St. John,",
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   {
    "text": "Cathedrals did craftsmen raise,",
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   {
    "text": "Fills all our minds now with amaze.",
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   {
    "text": "No modern chisel has the power",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To trace such leaf, and bud, and flower,",
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   {
    "text": "But though our structures now are rude",
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    "text": "Let us all make the mortar good.",
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   {
    "text": "And this injunction never spare,",
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   {
    "text": "To have the work both plumb and square,",
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    "text": "And it must have no crack nor flaw,",
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    "text": "So masters will lay down the law.",
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   {
    "text": "Of all our work this is the chief,",
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   {
    "text": "To give the needy ones relief,",
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    "text": "And with truth and brotherly love",
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    "text": "We sublime structure raise above.",
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    "text": "The greatest honor has been won",
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    "text": "By that great builder Solomon,",
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    "text": "And craftsmen o’er the world do sing",
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   {
    "text": "The praises of that mighty King.",
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