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 "title": "Peculiarities of Oxford County",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": "Its Numerous Windmills",
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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 "first_published": {
  "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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  "sources": [
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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": "’Tis charming for to view windmill,",
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   {
    "text": "Picturesque in vale or hill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Forcing up a sparkling rill,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And cows enjoy with right good will",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Clear water brewed in nature’s still,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And of it they do drink their fill.",
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    "text": "No wonder they can make with ease",
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   {
    "text": "In Oxford world renowned cheese,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For cows enjoy the clear pure stream",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With rich, sweet grass makes best of cream.",
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  ],
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   {
    "text": "Cow, you must treat her as a queen,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When grass is dry cut her feed green,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its benefits will quick be seen",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For she is a grand milk machine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The system it is called soiling,",
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   {
    "text": "But it repays for extra toiling.",
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