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 "title": "Poetry",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "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": "Poetry to us is given,",
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   {
    "text": "As stars beautify the Heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "Or, as the sunbeams when they gleam,",
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   {
    "text": "Sparkling so bright upon the stream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the poetry of motion",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is ship sailing o’er the ocean;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or, when the bird doth graceful fly,",
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   {
    "text": "Seeming to float upon the sky,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For poetry is the pure cream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And essence of the common theme.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Poetic thoughts the mind doth fill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When on broad plain to view a hill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On barren heath how it doth cheer,",
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   {
    "text": "To see in distance herd of deer,",
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   {
    "text": "And poetry breathes in each flower,",
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   {
    "text": "Nourished by the gentle shower,",
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   {
    "text": "In song of birds upon the trees,",
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   {
    "text": "And humming of busy bees,",
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   {
    "text": "’Tis solace for the ills of life,",
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    "text": "A soothing of the jars and strife,",
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   {
    "text": "For poets feel ’tis a duty",
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    "text": "To sing of both worth and beauty.",
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