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 "id": "james-mcintyre/murder-of-a-young-englishman",
 "title": "Murder of a Young Englishman",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "sequence": 75,
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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Now a sad tale we hiive to tell:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A few miles east, in Blenheim swamp,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So cruel slain was young Benwell,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Whose body lay ’mong snow and damp.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "He was a well-bred English youth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hoping to own Canadian farm,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But his countryman devoid of truth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He did plot his deadly harm.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Sad fate, the world did appal,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "That he by bullet thus should die;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fired by protended friend, Birchall,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who swung for it on gallows high.",
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   }
  ]
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}