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 "title": "Poets and Philosophers",
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 "subtitle": "Bacon, Hogg, Lamb and Shakespeare",
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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    "text": "Bacon, philosopher profound,",
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    "text": "With mighty thoughts his works abound,",
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    "text": "Reflections did his mind engage",
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    "text": "Were in advance of his own age.",
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    "text": "And Hogg the Ettrick shepherd bard,",
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    "text": "High honors all do him award,",
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    "text": "Great fame and glory he did reap",
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    "text": "While tending to his flock of sheep.",
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    "text": "And Lamb, the gentle and the good,",
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    "text": "His works all show a happy mood;",
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    "text": "About these names there is no waste,",
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    "text": "Pleasing to fancy and to taste.",
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    "text": "Some critics think they do make clear",
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    "text": "The fact that Bacon wrote Shakespeare,",
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    "text": "But a gent lives in New York",
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    "text": "Asks what effect will it have on pork.",
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    "text": "Of course it would quick awaken",
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    "text": "A higher estimate of Bacon,",
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    "text": "But it is folly for to rear",
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    "text": "His fame on ruins of Shakespeare.",
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    "text": "Though Will was not college bred,",
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    "text": "With Greek they did not cram his head,",
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    "text": "But he well knew by translations",
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    "text": "The history of the ancient nations.",
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    "text": "And mingled daily in the strife",
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    "text": "With people in all walks of life,",
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    "text": "His plays they are to nature true",
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    "text": "Because he wrote of what he knew.",
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   {
    "text": "“Alas that I have wandered here and there”",
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    "text": "He does cry out in his despair,",
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   {
    "text": "While he did lead a wandering life",
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   {
    "text": "And left alone his loving wife.",
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