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 "title": "Victoria Park and Caledonian Games",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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 "first_published": {
  "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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   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Come one, come all, to Scottish games",
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   {
    "text": "On the banks of Canadian Thames;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You’ll find that ’tis most pleasant way",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You can enjoy the Queen’s Birthday.",
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   {
    "text": "In future years it will be famed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The day whereon the park was named,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With its boundry great extended",
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   {
    "text": "And nature’s charms sweetly blended.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Full worthy of the poet’s theme",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is hill and dale, and wood and stream,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And glittering spires, and busy town.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Where mansions’ do each mount top crown.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Come, witness the great tug-of-war,",
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   {
    "text": "And the great hammer thrown afar,",
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   {
    "text": "See running, jumping, highland fling,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "At concert hear the sky lark sing.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And the bagpipes will send thrills",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like echoes from the distant hills,",
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   {
    "text": "And the bold sound of the pibroch",
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   {
    "text": "Which does resound o’er Scottish loch.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Young men and maids, and fine old dames",
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   {
    "text": "Will gather on the banks of Thames,",
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   {
    "text": "And though we have a tug-of-war",
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   },
   {
    "text": "’Twill leave no wound or deadly scar.",
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