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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
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   {
    "text": "Well tell a tale, it shall be brief",
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   {
    "text": "It is of rise of Maple Leaf,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From noble Olive Branch it sprung,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And its good deeds shall yet be sung;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This Encampment, though in its youth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Glories in friendship, love, and truth",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of all our lodges yet the chief",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May be this youthful Maple Leaf;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Built of good timber, it doth launch",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Well worthy of the Olive Branch,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And though it only is a shoot",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We hope that it will take deep root,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And soon be vigorous Maple tree",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In Canada so broad and free.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And may its usefulness ne’er cease",
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   {
    "text": "Sprung from the Olive Branch of peace,",
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   {
    "text": "But comfort brothers in distress,",
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   {
    "text": "Widows and orphans it will bless,",
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   {
    "text": "And console them in their grief,",
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   {
    "text": "Protected by the Maple Leaf.",
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   {
    "text": "Poor travellers in the wilderness",
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   {
    "text": "They oft do suffer great distress,",
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   {
    "text": "But may no pilgrim get rude shock",
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   {
    "text": "Sojourning here in Woodstock.",
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