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 "title": "Fertile Lands and Mammoth Cheese",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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    "text": "In barren district you may meet",
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    "text": "Small fertile spot doth grow fine wheat,",
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   {
    "text": "There you may find the choicest fruits,",
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    "text": "And great, round, smooth and solid roots.",
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    "text": "But in conditions such as these",
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    "text": "You cannot make a mammoth cheese,",
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    "text": "Which will weigh eight thousand pounds,",
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   {
    "text": "But where large fertile farms abounds.",
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   {
    "text": "Big cheese is synonymous name,",
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   {
    "text": "With fertile district of the Thame,",
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   {
    "text": "Here dairy system’s understood,",
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   {
    "text": "And they are made both large and good.",
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