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 "title": "United States",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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    "text": "The United States is wondrous land,",
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    "text": "Within its mighty borders grand,",
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   {
    "text": "They are a world unto themselves,",
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   {
    "text": "In South the Negro plows and delves.",
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  ],
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    "text": "Raising tobacco, sugar, cotton,",
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   {
    "text": "Grapes and rice too may be gotten,",
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   {
    "text": "The west for corn, cattle and swine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On which millions o’er the world dine.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The silver hills of Colorado,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Equaled only by Nevada,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And o’er the world you can’t behold",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Aught like California’s mines of gold.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "To vast extent her exports reaches,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of grapes and oranges and peaches,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And Florida the land of flowers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is famous for its orange bowers.",
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   {
    "text": "Pennsylvania’s hills environ",
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    "text": "Wondrous mines of coal and iron,",
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   {
    "text": "Great marvel of these modern days,",
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   {
    "text": "All you require yourselves could raise.",
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   {
    "text": "But still Canadians are content",
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    "text": "With their own half of continent,",
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   {
    "text": "Though Uncle Sam is most wealthy,",
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   {
    "text": "Canada’s content and healthy.",
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   {
    "text": "Sam and her are blood relation,",
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   {
    "text": "Sprung alike from British nation,",
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   {
    "text": "May peaceful odes alone be sung",
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    "text": "’Tween people of one race and tongue.",
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   {
    "text": "When Canada’s ten million strong,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Then none will dare to do her wrong,",
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   {
    "text": "Either as a youthful nation",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Or in Imperial Federation.",
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