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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
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    "text": "St. Catharines famed for mineral waters",
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    "text": "And for the beauty of her daughters,",
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    "text": "For some do worship at the shrines",
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    "text": "Of the fair St. Catharines.",
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    "text": "St. Catharines your greatness you inherit",
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    "text": "From the genius of a Merritt,",
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    "text": "You still would be a village dreary",
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    "text": "But for this canal from lake Erie.",
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    "text": "For on its bosom there doth float",
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    "text": "Full many a ship and steamboat,",
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    "text": "Brings world’s commerce to your doors",
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    "text": "And many gifts on you it pours.",
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    "text": "Among its many great rewards",
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    "text": "It gives you dry docks and ship yards,",
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    "text": "To drive your mills great water power",
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    "text": "It doth give you as a dower.",
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    "text": "Since we above lines did compose,",
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    "text": "Through new canal vast stream it flows,",
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   {
    "text": "The lock gates at the hill at Thorold",
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    "text": "Can not be equaled in the world.",
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