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 "id": "james-mcintyre/lines-on-salford",
 "title": "Lines on Salford",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
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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": "Some do boast of their pedigrees,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But Salford’s parent of the cheese,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ranney, industrious and wise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Here started this great enterprise.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "He did work on the dairy plan,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While Farrington was factoryman,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Both of these men it well did please",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To hear of progress making cheese.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The farmers are in cheerful mood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For harvest all it has been good,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all the grain was sown this spring",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An abundant yield will bring.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And you can scarcely stow away",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The yield of barley, oats and hay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Such pasture it is seldom seen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "E’en now it is so fresh and green.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "This beauteous colour nature decks,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While it insures you large milk cheques,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And certes you’ve much cause to praise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For hogs and cattle that you raise.",
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