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  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
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    "text": "When the great Bulwer’s pen did trace",
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   {
    "text": "The history of the coming race,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "His hero to us hath unfurled",
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   {
    "text": "The glories of his new-found world.",
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    "text": "This bold traveller he did venture",
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    "text": "Far below our world’s centre;",
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   {
    "text": "He entered through an ancient mine,",
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   {
    "text": "And to us doth new world define.",
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   {
    "text": "Once all was discord and fierce wars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Continuous engaged in jars,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Till they discovered great Vril power,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then wars did cease from the same hour.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Mighty bolts from it were hurled,",
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   {
    "text": "Would soon have laid waste the world;",
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   {
    "text": "So for world’s preservation,",
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    "text": "At once they stopped desolation.",
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    "text": "All wars by them ar now despised,",
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    "text": "Unfit for nations civilized;",
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    "text": "And peaceful glories they do sing,",
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    "text": "And are not slaves to warlike king.",
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    "text": "Bellamy describes a poor rose,",
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    "text": "Where in cold swamp it feebly grows;",
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    "text": "Transplanted to the heat and light,",
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   {
    "text": "Bush blossoms are a charming sight.",
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