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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": "Will you leave the hills of Scotland?",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your childhood’s happy home,",
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   {
    "text": "To brave the dangers of the deep,",
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   {
    "text": "In foreign lands to roam⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Say, Mary, will you, for my sake",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Leave yonder joyous cot⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Your youthful friends and scenes so dear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To share a soldier’s lot?",
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   {
    "text": "The battle’s din, my Mary,",
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   {
    "text": "Has never met thine ear,",
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   {
    "text": "The woodlands’ songsters melody",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is all that thou dost hear.",
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   {
    "text": "The vivid flash of musketry⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The cannon’s thundering roar",
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   {
    "text": "Must meet thine eye, burst on thine ear",
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    "text": "Sounds never heard before.",
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   {
    "text": "And now, fond one, I’ve told you all.",
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   {
    "text": "And I can say no more⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“Will you go to the Indies, my Mary,",
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   {
    "text": "And leave old Scotia’s shore?”",
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