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 "title": "The Steamboat",
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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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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "In early times the swift steamboat",
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   {
    "text": "O’er the broad ocean did not float,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But ships were wafted o’er the seas,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With sails inflated by the breeze.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "In progress they could not prevail,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If ’gainst ship’s haad did blow the gale;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And oft times for many a day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Becalmed on ocean’s breast they lay.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "But now the mighty monarch, steam,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er land and sea doth rule supreme;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Steamship proudly ploughs the ocean,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Independent of wind’s motion.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "From Scottish hill when I was boy,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I cried out in my childish joy;",
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   {
    "text": "The thought which filled my heart with glee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "America, I plainly see.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Then I was told to my amaze,",
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   {
    "text": "That it was far beyond my gaze;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The chart to me was then unfurled,",
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   {
    "text": "To prove I could not see whole world.",
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   {
    "text": "The truth to me was great surprise then,",
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   {
    "text": "That world was greater than horizon;",
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   {
    "text": "Our views through life they thus expand,",
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   {
    "text": "Beholding God’s creation grand.",
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