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 "title": "Agricultural Implements and Machinery",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames",
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  "year": 1884,
  "venue": "Musings on the Banks of Canadian Thames (1884)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "Poor laborers they did sad bewail,",
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   {
    "text": "When the machine displaced the flail,",
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   {
    "text": "There’s little work now with the hoes.",
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   {
    "text": "Since cultivators weed the rows.",
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   {
    "text": "Labor it became more fickle,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When the scythe took place of sickle,",
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   {
    "text": "Labor still it did sink lower,",
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    "text": "By introduction of mower.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "And the work was done much cheaper",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When they added on the reaper,",
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   {
    "text": "Another machine to it they join,",
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    "text": "Mower, reaper, binder, all combine.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Machines now load and stow away,",
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   {
    "text": "Both the barley and the hay,",
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    "text": "And the farmers do get richer",
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    "text": "With the loader and the pitcher.",
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    "text": "There’s very few men now hand sows,",
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    "text": "No more broad cast the grain it grows,",
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    "text": "They sow and rake by the machine,",
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   {
    "text": "Hand labor is ’mong the things have been.",
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   {
    "text": "Armed with scythes the old war chariot,",
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    "text": "Cut men down in the fierce war riot,",
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   {
    "text": "Round farmers’ chariot fall the slain,",
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   {
    "text": "But ’tis the sheaves of golden grain.",
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