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 "title": "Alaska",
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 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
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    "text": "With thy rugged, ice-girt shore,",
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    "text": "Draped in everlasting snow,",
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    "text": "Thou’rt enthroned a queen.",
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    "text": "Crown of moss and lichen grey,",
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    "text": "Frosted o’er with ocean spray,",
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    "text": "All thy long, long wintry day,",
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    "text": "Dark and stern thy mien.",
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    "text": "From the cloudland fresh and fair,",
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    "text": "Falls the snow through crispy air,",
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    "text": "Mantling vale and hill.",
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    "text": "Then old “Borealis” glows,",
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    "text": "With his fiery light that shows,",
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    "text": "Frozen nature in repose,",
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    "text": "River, stream and rill.",
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    "text": "On thy north the Polar Sea",
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    "text": "Thunders forth in wild melee,",
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    "text": "’Mid gorges dark and steep",
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    "text": "Full many a ship with noble crew,",
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    "text": "Lies low beneath thy waters blue,",
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    "text": "Nor left behind a single clue,",
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    "text": "But sleep a dreamless sleep.",
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    "text": "Beside the far famed Yukon stands",
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    "text": "Hundreds of men from distant lands,",
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    "text": "All with the same desire",
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    "text": "Gold, gold’s the watchword, yellow ore,",
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    "text": "That tempts him from his homestead door,",
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   {
    "text": "And Oh! alas he nevermore",
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    "text": "May sit by household fire.",
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    "text": "Ah! if men would only toil,",
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    "text": "Dig and delve their own rich soil,",
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    "text": "With vigor and with vim;",
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    "text": "Forth would spring the golden corn,",
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    "text": "Loud would ring the harvest song,",
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    "text": "Life and health they would prolong,",
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    "text": "All through nature’s prime.",
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    "text": "Under his own, his fruitful vine,",
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    "text": "Beneath his laden fig tree green,",
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    "text": "He, like a king, would reign.",
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    "text": "Bending low with purple yield,",
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    "text": "Rivalling fair Eschkol’s fields,",
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    "text": "He’d a potent influence wield,",
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    "text": "With his corn and wine.",
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