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 "id": "james-mcintyre/ode-on-the-mammoth-cheese",
 "title": "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese",
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 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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 "sequence": 64,
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 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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  "repo": "standardebooks/james-mcintyre_poetry",
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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)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "We have seen thee, queen of cheese,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Lying quietly at your ease,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gently fanned by evening breeze,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy fair form no flies dare seize.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "All gaily dressed soon you’ll go",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To the great Provincial show,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To be admired by many a beau",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the city of Toronto.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Cows numerous as a swarm of bees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or as the leaves upon the trees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "It did require to make thee please,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And stand unrivalled, queen of cheese.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "May you not receive a scar as",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We have heard that Mr. Harris",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Intends to send you off as far as",
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   {
    "text": "The great world’s show at Paris.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Of the youth beware of these,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For some of them might rudely squeeze",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And bite your cheek, then songs or glees",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We could not sing, oh! queen of cheese.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "We’rt thou suspended from balloon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You’d cast a shade even at noon,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Folks would think it was the moon",
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   },
   {
    "text": "About to fall and crush them soon.",
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