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 "id": "james-mcintyre/mild-christmas",
 "title": "Mild Christmas",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "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": "On Christmas Day of eighty-nine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sun all day did pleasant shine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The cows they would not eat their hay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But o’er the pasture lands did stray.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Such winter day is seldom seen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Instead of white the fields were green;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Colts and young cattle they did play,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Happy as in the month of May.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But Canadians do delight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To see the landscape robed in white;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To them the sweetest music dwells",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In merry tinkle of sleigh bells.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And land doth more abundant yield,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the snow mantle covers field;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And farmer quick can load his sleigh,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cheerful drive o’er icy way.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "For true Canadians love the snow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And like to hear old Boreas blow;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For with just pride they all do boast,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They love the winter’s cold and frost.",
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