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 "title": "Stars and Stripes",
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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": "Hail Flag of the Union! Hail Flag of the free!",
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   {
    "text": "That floateth so proudly o’er land and o’er sea",
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   {
    "text": "Thy Stars and thy Stripes, in grandeur doth wave",
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   {
    "text": "O’er hearts that are true and hands that are brave.",
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  ],
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    "text": "When first thy bright pennant was lifted on high,",
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   {
    "text": "When first ’twas unfolded to patriot’s eye;",
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   {
    "text": "The ovation that greeted thee, rose through the air",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Like incense from altars of hearts true and dear.",
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   {
    "text": "Hail Flag of our country, when thrown to the breeze",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy power is acknowledged, far over the seas.",
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   {
    "text": "Thy influence so boundless, that none may deny,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy potency reaches all lands, ’neath the sky.",
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    "text": "Should war like a dark cloud, encircle our land,",
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   {
    "text": "With its threat’ning besom o’ershadow the main.",
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   {
    "text": "With head lifted high, thou would’st laugh them to scorn",
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   {
    "text": "Who from thy tall flagstaff would try to pull down.",
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    "text": "Long, long may thy Stripes and thy Stars proudly wave",
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    "text": "O’er hearts that are true and hands that are brave,",
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   {
    "text": "And ne’er may thy children, resign to the foe",
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   {
    "text": "The Flag that was baptized, in blood long ago.",
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