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 "title": "Salford Parsonage",
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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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   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Your pastor’s fame first got abroad",
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   },
   {
    "text": "By his success on Culloden Road;",
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   {
    "text": "He filled the church so that the fold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No longer it the flock would hold.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "But soon a larger church did rise,",
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   {
    "text": "With fine neat tower points to the skies;",
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   {
    "text": "When you o’erwhelmed with ruin dire",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Did lose your parsonage by fire.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "To his call with generous bounty",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You built best parsonage in county,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But some good people in the town",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At this idea they might frown.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Unless we made this correction:",
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    "text": "The best in a rural section;",
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    "text": "Your pastor he doth vigorous push,",
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    "text": "He’s not afraid to enter bush.",
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    "text": "And ’tis a fact there’s very few",
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   {
    "text": "With him can stick of timber hew;",
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   {
    "text": "Ready for to superintend,",
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   {
    "text": "Or a helping hand to lend.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "When bold man’s wanted at the front,",
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   {
    "text": "You’ve but to call on Reverend Hunt;",
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   {
    "text": "In pulpit he conviction darts,",
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   {
    "text": "And points the way to troubled hearts.",
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   {
    "text": "But solemn thoughts we won’t employ,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As this is all a scene of joy;",
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   {
    "text": "Maids and matrons all charming",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do grace this pleasant housewarming.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Here people come from near and far",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To purchase goods at this bazar;",
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   {
    "text": "And all is happiness and glee",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At festival of this soirée.",
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