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 "title": "The Power of Steam",
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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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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "We now do sing a new theme,",
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    "text": "It is prodigious power of steam;",
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   {
    "text": "And our little fast steam horse,",
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   {
    "text": "How he works with mighty force.",
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   {
    "text": "Instead of hay and oats, we thrust",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In his mouth chips and saw dust;",
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   {
    "text": "Which heats the blood in his veins,",
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    "text": "Then how he saws and bores and plains.",
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    "text": "He’s never troubled with the botts,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But all the time he gaily trotts,",
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   {
    "text": "And every day he is full able",
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    "text": "To make many a chair and table.",
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    "text": "Work for him is only sport,",
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    "text": "He feels so good he oft does snort,",
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    "text": "As he trotts along his course,",
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    "text": "Our little frolicksome steam horse.",
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