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 "title": "Whale and Its Foes",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "Six hundred miles north of Cape Flattery,",
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    "text": "On sea there seemed a floating battery,",
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    "text": "And stream of blood did dye the water,",
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    "text": "Sailors wondered what was the matter.",
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    "text": "But they soon saw a great sword fish",
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    "text": "With its bayonet make a quick rush,",
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    "text": "Into which proved to be large whale,",
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    "text": "And thrasher too did it assail.",
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    "text": "The whale dived deep to save its life,",
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    "text": "But thrasher eager for the strife,",
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    "text": "Knew whale must rise for to get breath,",
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    "text": "Then it would thrash the whale to death.",
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    "text": "At last the great whale it arose,",
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    "text": "And in distress it spouts and blows,",
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    "text": "In anger sweeps its mighty tail,",
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    "text": "Defensive weapon of the whale.",
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    "text": "But thrasher high in air did leap,",
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    "text": "And fell on monster of the deep,",
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    "text": "The sword fish then it did advance,",
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    "text": "And assaulted it with its lance.",
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    "text": "Thus united foes soon do prevail,",
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    "text": "And quick there floated a dead whale,",
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    "text": "The thrasher now victorious winner,",
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    "text": "From off the whale expected dinner.",
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    "text": "But ship’s crew they secured the prize,",
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    "text": "Whale bone and blubber monster size,",
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   {
    "text": "Others fought but they only reap,",
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    "text": "The spoils of mammoth of the deep.",
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