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    "title": "Records relating to Polar Exploration",
    "description": "This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.",
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    "ocrText": "S. Rhone,\nMontgomery, Pa.\nWHEN PEARY FINDS THE POLE\nThis earth's been rolling 'round and 'round a million years or so,\nHanging out in sun and rain she's a little warped and slow,\nBut she will get a straight's ning up in Uncle Sam's control,\nFor 'twont be long , my anxious friend, till Peary finds the Pole.\nOh, won't it be a happy day when from the Northern sea\nWe hear the tidings' Peary raised the emblem of the free?''\nHe'll paint the Pole red ,white and blue, for he's a Yankee soul,\nHe'll plant Old Glory on the top ,when Peary finds the Pole.\nChorus: Won't our hearts swell with pride when on the North Pole\nWe see the old flag fan the breeze?\nThe Aurora will be dim when the red, white and blue\nPeary plants on the Northern seas.\nHe'll put a little oleo upon the gudgeon cold,\nAnd then this earth will spin around ,as in the days of old,\nShe'll whirl around so very fast the seas will get behind,\nAnd then we'll have another flood ,just like the other kind.\nWe' 11 have to lie flat on the ground and hold fast to the grass,\nFor if we don't we'll get behind and tumble off alas!\nOur clocks will run so very slow that we'll get left'tis plain,\n'Twill be next day before we know ,and we will miss the train.\nChorus.\nWe cannot eat three meals a day they'll be so very near,\nWe'll lunch all day on sandwiches ,then board won't be so dear.\nWe cannot use the almanacs, they'll be so out of date,\nThere'll be no patent medicines, we'll die as sure as fate.\nAnd worst of all,I prophesy, before ten years roll 'round,\nYou'll find the earth is lopping low, the North end in the ground,\nFor\ntrolley crowds, from every place, upon their outings dear,\nWill cut the Pole and take it home, just for a souvenir.\nChorus.\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
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