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 "title": "Survival of the Fittest",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "Now let the hero of our song,",
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   {
    "text": "Be he who gentle treats the throng,",
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   {
    "text": "And would not cruel treat another,",
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   {
    "text": "But to each be as to a brother.",
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    "text": "And he must have both sense and wit,",
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   {
    "text": "And be possessed of strength and grit,",
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   {
    "text": "Then strong as proof of holy writ,",
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    "text": "For to survive he is most fit.",
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   {
    "text": "And according to our test,",
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   {
    "text": "The fittest only is the best,",
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   {
    "text": "These have a right for to survive,",
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    "text": "And well they do deserve to thrive.",
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   {
    "text": "And this kind of evolution",
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   {
    "text": "It will bring no revolution,",
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   {
    "text": "But revolve in Christian sphere,",
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   {
    "text": "Where scripture truths are prized and dear.",
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   {
    "text": "Give us the man doth persevere,",
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    "text": "And presses on in his career,",
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   {
    "text": "Undaunted struggling for the right,",
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    "text": "Though all mankind ’gainst him unite.",
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   {
    "text": "Though now on top of highest mount,",
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   {
    "text": "Where he has found true honour’s fount,",
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   {
    "text": "Yet those below he don’t despise,",
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   {
    "text": "But strives to aid them for to rise.",
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