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 "title": "Niagara’s Charms and Death of Capt. Webb",
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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)",
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    "text": "Gazing on rapids mighty sea,",
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   {
    "text": "Struggling fiercely to be free,",
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    "text": "But drawn downwards in its course",
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    "text": "By gravitation’s wondrous force,",
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    "text": "O’er those perpendicular walls,",
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   {
    "text": "Hurled ’mong mighty rocks it falls,",
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    "text": "Causing the earth to throb and shake",
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    "text": "Like to the tremor of earthquake.",
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    "text": "Thus the world’s greatest wonder",
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   {
    "text": "Reverberates like peals of thunder,",
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   {
    "text": "Enshrined with mist and beauteous glow",
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   {
    "text": "Of varied tints of the rainbow,",
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    "text": "Most glorious sight the human eye",
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    "text": "Hath ever seen beneath the sky,",
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    "text": "Along these banks none ever trod",
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    "text": "But did feel grateful to his God,",
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    "text": "For lavishing with bounteous hand",
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    "text": "Glories majestic and so grand.",
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    "text": "The foaming billows soon are seen",
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    "text": "Transformed into a beauteous green,",
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    "text": "Plunged by whirlpools dread commotion",
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    "text": "It becomes a seething ocean,",
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    "text": "Where furies join in surging dance",
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    "text": "From centre to circumference,",
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    "text": "This is the favorite abode",
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    "text": "Of Neptune, mightiest sea God,",
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    "text": "He hath decreed none shall survive",
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    "text": "Who will into this vortex dive.",
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    "text": "Webb swam the English channel brave,",
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    "text": "Like seabird he did love to lave",
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    "text": "His breast upon the mightiest wave,",
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   {
    "text": "Alas, found here a watery grave;",
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    "text": "Torrent onward rushes frantic",
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    "text": "On its course to the Atlantic,",
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   {
    "text": "But on its way doth gently flow",
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    "text": "Through blue lake Ontario,",
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    "text": "Rejoicing on its way it smiles,",
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    "text": "Kissing the shores of Thousand Isles,",
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    "text": "Mingling with St. Lawrence motion,",
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    "text": "It soon is blended with the ocean.",
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