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 "id": "james-mcintyre/niagara-dry",
 "title": "Niagara Dry",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "It happened once in early spring,",
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    "text": "While there did float great thick ice cakes,",
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    "text": "That then a gale did quickly bring",
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    "text": "Them all down from the upper lakes.",
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    "text": "And from Buffalo to Lake Erie,",
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    "text": "Across the entrance to river,",
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    "text": "It was a scene of icebergs dreary,",
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    "text": "Those who saw will remember ever.",
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    "text": "Then gale blew up lake and river,",
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    "text": "And left Niagara almost dry,",
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    "text": "This a lady did discover",
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    "text": "As above the Falls she cast her eye.",
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    "text": "Such scene it had been witnessed never,",
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    "text": "Since Israelites crossed the Red Sea,",
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    "text": "When they had resolved forever",
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    "text": "From Pharaoh’s bondage to flee.",
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    "text": "Lady she resolved to venture,",
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    "text": "Proudly carrying British flag,",
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    "text": "Erecting it in river’s centre",
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    "text": "In crevice of a rocky crag.",
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    "text": "It seems like a romance by Bulwer,",
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    "text": "How she captured Niagara,",
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    "text": "But it was seen by Bishop Fuller,",
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    "text": "Who did at sight of flag hurrah.",
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    "text": "Ten thousand years may die away",
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    "text": "Before another dry can tread,",
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    "text": "In bottom of Niagara,",
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   {
    "text": "For she doth jealous guard her bed.",
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    "text": "But ice her entrance did blockade,",
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    "text": "And wind it kept the waters back,",
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    "text": "So that a child could almost wade",
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    "text": "Across the brink of cataract.",
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