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 "title": "Soldier and Gander",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "sequence": 93,
 "container": null,
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "When Sherman marched through Georgia,",
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   {
    "text": "Hanger in soldiers oft did knaw;",
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   {
    "text": "A soldier longing for to dine",
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    "text": "He soon procured a hook and line,",
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  ],
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    "text": "And put on hook a tempting bait.",
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   {
    "text": "And old wife stood beside her gate,",
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   {
    "text": "And round her a flock of geese;",
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   {
    "text": "The soldier he resolved to fleece",
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   {
    "text": "The old Irtdy of her gander,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And make it from flock to wander;",
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   {
    "text": "Quick as the soldier threw the bait",
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   {
    "text": "The gander then it left each mate.",
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    "text": "And it then seem’d to the beholder",
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    "text": "As if the gander chased the soldier;",
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    "text": "Old lady told soldier not to run,",
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    "text": "For gander only was in fun,",
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    "text": "And she would pledge to him her word,",
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    "text": "The gander was kind-hearted bird;",
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    "text": "She never knew him yet to fight,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For in good deeds he took delight.",
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   {
    "text": "The soldier cried, “I will not stay,",
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   {
    "text": "But from fierce fowl will run away”;",
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    "text": "Old woman she could not divine,",
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   {
    "text": "Gander was pulled by hook and line.",
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    "text": "When soldier got across the hill,",
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   {
    "text": "He took the hook from out its bill,",
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   {
    "text": "Twisted its neck, and goose did roast,",
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   {
    "text": "Oft of that meal he yet doth boast.",
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