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 "title": "The Great Fire of Ingersoll",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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    "text": "’Twas on a pleasant eve in May.",
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    "text": "Just as the sun shed its last ray,",
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    "text": "The bell it rang, citizens to warn,",
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    "text": "For lo! a fire appears in barn.",
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    "text": "An ancient barn near hotel stood,",
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    "text": "The joining buildings all were wood;",
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    "text": "This barn a relic of the past,",
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    "text": "There farmers’ horses were made fast.",
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   {
    "text": "Our once fair town is now in woe,",
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   {
    "text": "And we have had our Chicago;",
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    "text": "But soon a nobler town will rise,",
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    "text": "For Ingersoll’s all enterprise.",
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    "text": "For water far town need not seek,",
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    "text": "As there is river and the creek",
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   {
    "text": "Just find the means it to apply",
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    "text": "And then all fires must quickly die.",
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