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 "title": "O for a Lodge",
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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": "“O for a lodge in some vast wilderness”",
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   {
    "text": "A man cried out in his distress,",
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   {
    "text": "For he was tired and sick of life,",
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   {
    "text": "And weary of this worldly strife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And longed for to be far away",
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   {
    "text": "From the continuous daily fray.",
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    "text": "But the fond partner of his life,",
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   {
    "text": "His own dearest, loving wife,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Those sentiments did not admire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For fiercely they did rouse her ire,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Said she, I’ll never let you budge",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To go and join another lodge,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your lodges take six nights each week,",
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   {
    "text": "And still another lodge you seek,",
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   {
    "text": "For your whole time they soon will steal,",
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   {
    "text": "You won’t get home even to a meal,",
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   {
    "text": "Continuous abroad you’ll roam,",
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   {
    "text": "And never enter your own home.",
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