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 "title": "Reminiscences",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "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": "A wail went o’er broad Canada,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When it was known a vile outlaw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had at midnight’s awful hour,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With ruffian hand blown up the tower.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "’Neath which had slept the gallant Brock",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who bravely fell on Queenston’s rock,",
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   {
    "text": "But graceful column soon shall rise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its beauteous shaft will kiss the skies.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "For from Queenston’s woody height",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You may behold a pleasing sight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The grim old veterans of the war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Militiamen with many a scar.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Indian braves from each nation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Grouped to pay their last ovation,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Round the remains of General Brock,",
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   {
    "text": "Who led them oft in battle’s shock.",
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   {
    "text": "Old heroes now again do rally,",
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   {
    "text": "Feebly they move along the valley,",
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    "text": "Not as they rushed in days of yore",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When torrent like they onward bore.",
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   {
    "text": "And swept away the foeman’s ranks",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er Niagara’s rugged banks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "So indignant was their grief",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On losing of their warrior chief.",
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   {
    "text": "Now with triumphant funeral car,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Adorned with implements of war,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The sad procession slow ascends,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As round the hill its way it wends.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Marching to mournful, solemn note,",
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   {
    "text": "While grand old flags around it float,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And now may peace be never broken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Mong lands where Saxon tongue is spoken.",
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   {
    "text": "“For peace hath victories by far",
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   {
    "text": "More glorious than horrid war,”",
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   {
    "text": "England doth Longfellow revere,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And America loves Shakespeare.",
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